Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
I’m sorry, Don. I’ve had several hard drives die but never an SSD (yet). What was that like - any warnings? Messages? Can you try the drive in another computer?

Good luck.


Matt

My first indication was freezing about 10 seconds after getting to a login screen. Not long enough to enter my credentials. Also, most of the onscreen icons had disappeared. Finally, it went to a blue screen, then dead.

I am in the process of reinstalling whatever I can.

I had the old drive destroyed rather than try to recover stuff. I have the critical software backed up but it will take me, at my pace, some time to reinstall e.