Internal SSD seems to not be writeable.

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  1. simonft

    simonft

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    I have a acer aspire one with an eight GB ssd. I have had it for ~5 months with no problems, installed many different linux distros, but now it seems to have stoped allowing me to write to the ssd. I get the error
    when partitioning with ubuntu, debian, fedora, xubuntu, and when I try to do it manually with fdisk, it says that it will change the partition table at the next reboot but does not. Have I somehow write protected my ssd? Could it be that the SSD is broken?

    Note: there is no OS currently installed, I am only using live cd's, which work fine.
    Thanks ahead of time.
     
    simonft, Aug 3, 2009
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    Hi everybody,
    I've just joined this forum for a problem quite similar.

    My wife's linpus A0A110L let us only see the beautiful blue boot screen and then it freezes.
    I've tried the Recovery DVD (not a pendrive, but an external usb dvd drive), the recovery process starts
    and then stops before doing anything with a little cryptic "error 39! contact [email protected]" error.

    I searched the net and this forum and I found that it's something related to partitioning issues.

    Then I booted Mandriva 2009.1 One to reformat the ssd but it was impossible.
    Actually I can't format it and I can't delete any partition.
    If I mount the linpus partition and do a simple "touch test.txt", it doesn't work either.
    I tried Acronis disk suite and Partition Magic with no luck.

    Is the SSD write protected? Is it possible to turn it off?
    Could the write protection prevent linpus from booting?
    Thank you in advance for any piece of advice!
     
    granger75, Jan 24, 2010
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