Supercowboy1986
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hello and thanks for reading my thread.
I have a Samsung 840 that randomly locked up which required me to reformat because it wouldn't boot, at all. The data is not important I just want the drive to work.
I was able to reformat an extra HD I had lying around and when I looked in my device manager it shows that the 840 is still connected but the name was scrambled. It appeared as S A M S00000N G, obviously it didn't exactly say Samsung 840 like it did previously but that name showed up in the storage devices tab underneath the working HD with the yellow caution sign so I'm assuming that's the 840.
I tried formatting it in the disk management screen, by right clicking my computer and accessing "manage" to see if I can assign it a letter to format it as a secondary drive but it doesn't show up as "unallocated space"... But it shows it's connected on device manager albeit scrambled. Anyone have any suggsstions before I try contacting Samsung for an RMA? I'm not convinced (yet) that the drive is dead because it still shows that it's connected, if it was, it wouldn't show at all.
I have a Samsung 840 that randomly locked up which required me to reformat because it wouldn't boot, at all. The data is not important I just want the drive to work.
I was able to reformat an extra HD I had lying around and when I looked in my device manager it shows that the 840 is still connected but the name was scrambled. It appeared as S A M S00000N G, obviously it didn't exactly say Samsung 840 like it did previously but that name showed up in the storage devices tab underneath the working HD with the yellow caution sign so I'm assuming that's the 840.
I tried formatting it in the disk management screen, by right clicking my computer and accessing "manage" to see if I can assign it a letter to format it as a secondary drive but it doesn't show up as "unallocated space"... But it shows it's connected on device manager albeit scrambled. Anyone have any suggsstions before I try contacting Samsung for an RMA? I'm not convinced (yet) that the drive is dead because it still shows that it's connected, if it was, it wouldn't show at all.
