Hold the button soldered to SSD, turn on the PC and boot from the USB drive prepared before, still holding the buttonĬonfigure MP according to russian instructions, select the right flash type (look at the flash chips on your PCB), capacity, you can make a custom model name as I did (dreadex2). You need to open it and short testpoints P8 and P9 together - I used small push button soldered on that pins, you need to hold it all the time from turning the PC on until MP tool detects the SSD.Ĭonnect the SSD to the PC, disconnect all other SATA drives, set sata mode to AHCI in BIOS SSD needs to be switched into lets say 'factory mode' to talk with MP tool. Try to boot it - you shoud get Fedora desktop with MpTool icon on the desktop, shut it down.Write the image onto USB drive (for example using 'dd if=mptool_mp2_v1-1-2.img of=/dev/sdX' replacing sdX with your USB drive ofcourse).Unpack mptool rar(s) to get mptool_mp2_v1-1-2.img.mptool_mp2_ (dunno why is listed twice on that google drive, both files are the same, download just one).Download MP Tool - I downloaded it from mirror mentioned above -, download these files:.- mptool mirror - part1.rar is showing twice and both are excatly same, you need just one of them.- Russian forum with link to instructions, mptool download.- forum page where I found following links.Googling around I found these usefull links: !!! ALL DATA PRESENT ON THE SSD WILL GET LOST BY FOLLOWING STEPS DESCRIBED BELLOW !!! !!! WARNING - this procedure describes how to FIX THE SSD without care of any data present on the drive !!! I get such SSD from my friend for free, he told me 'take it or it is going into trash', so I decided try to fix it - at least just for fun. You can find a lot of such complains around the web: The SSD completely diappears form PC including BIOS (not beiing detected at all). There was a bug in Sandforce controller firmware that cause SSD locks itself usually (but not always) after sleep/hybernate and wakeup of OS occurs. 15:50 | tags: SSD SandForce SF 1222 The problem

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