Help! SSD drive missing on Z2

Hey guys,

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

This morning, my Z2 booted with the message "No Operating System Found". I entered the RAID configuration utility and it would only show a single drive, with its serial # set to all zeros. The BIOS would report both drives though. As I had no other option, I opted to delete the RAID array. Since then, I cannot even access the RAID configuration utility using Ctrl + I. This is after choosing "Show" in the respective option in the BIOS. I found a thread where beaups said that that's because the system only sees a single working drive.

Like I said though, the BIOS reports 2 drives. I also booted using an Ubuntu boot CD, and it also sees 2 drives, and reports them as healthy too! It does report an error though about drives and multipathing. Lastly, I tried installing Win8 on the single available drive. It seemed to work, but on a couple of reboots, I got a BSOD with smt about a boot device error (message was on the screen only briefly). This was probably while trying to install all sort of drivers to make things work. On the subsequent reboot, everything works fine. 1

Any help please? Did 1 drive die? Why does the BIOS and Ubuntu Live CD report 2 disks, but the RAID configuration utility only 1?

Many thanks!

 

I wouldn't have deleted the partition. There's a glitch, not sure the order, but it involves the PMD. Do you remember if you had some sort of crash or forced reboot in which you then either connected or disconnected the PMD on reboot?

 

Last night I put Win8 into standby and went to sleep. This morning I woke up with the laptop on, with the "No Operating System" message on the screen. The PMD was connected all this time. I assume there was some sort of crash and a forced reboot before of this.

Do you know how I could fix this?

Thanks!

 

Get some power into it and then boot with the windows disc in. This happened when the laptop runs out of power in sleep mode. It may need to repair a file from the boot disc or you may find all is well without.

 

Really? But this is a case of a missing drive; it seems like a hardware issue. I've actually re-installed Windows on the single drive that is available, and Windows only sees that single drive. Going to "Disk Management" also confirms that. There is only 1 of the 2 128GB drives available from within Windows. Btw, I don't care about missing data either (have it backed up), as long as I don't have to send this for a repair, since I need it for work.

 

It should work, don't give up. I remember something similar happened to me, I believe gor9kn is correct..... I think my Z's battery died while in sleep mode, I plugged in the PMD and tried to boot. Got the no OS warning and IntelRAID Config was telling me I had a missing disk. I feared what you're fearing, that a drive died, but the drive would show up in BIOS. I know this is useless without a solution, I don't know what I did to fix it, but I finally got it to boot without wiping it..... I know this probably won't do anything, but have you tried removing the battery for a minute? Tried without the PMD?