So, right now we have Crucial BX100 120Gb drive based on SM2246EN controller modification which is goes in READY state but it passport ID is not complete and drive does not provide access to user data:Īfter attempt to reach the data in Universal Utility, we get the same pattern data in all sectors: If your drive is also based on SM controller, but it is not in the list of supported models, please contact our TS Department – we will try to help you! + many other drives based on SM2246 (except for the Intel modifications which are not supported!) and SM2258 Also, the list of officially supported drive is the following: If your SSD has SM 2258XT – use SmartBuy Jolt SiliconMotion Utility īasically there is no difference between them when you are using Active Utilities for data recovery, and the steps of drive initialization would be always the same.If your SSD has SM 2258G – use Plextor SiliconMotion Utility.If your SSD has SM 2258H – use ADATA SiliconMotion Utility.If your SSD has SM 2256K – use ADATA SiliconMotion Utility.If your SSD has P3XV60 – use Sandisk SiliconMotion Utility.If your SSD has SM 2246XT – use Sandisk SiliconMotion Utility.If your SSD has SM 2246EN – use Crucial SiliconMotion Utility.We recommend to use the following Utilities for SM cases: SM2258 Family (this controller is usually working in pair with TLC 3D NAND chips).SM2256 Family (this controller is usually working in pair with TLC NAND chips).SM2246 Family (this controller is usually working in pair with MLC NAND chips).
#Crucial ssd format utility mac os#
That all seems to have worked.Īs this seems to be a common issue for both Mac OS and Windows users for the newer SSDs, it is curious that manufacturers do not ship the new SSDs pre-formatted (whether in Mac OS Extended, NTFS, FAT32 or whatever) as a formatted disk will at least be recognised as a disk when first connected to either Mac OS or Windows.In this article we will speak about data recovery from SSD drives based on Silicon Motion SM controllers. This types of CPU are very popular and usually they are using in a wide number of different value and low-level solid state drives.Īt this moment exist several modifications of SM controllers which you can find in inside of common value models of SSD:
I then restored to the new SSD from most recent Time Machine backup on an external disk. mine is 500GB so it came up as an unnamed 500GB disk).Īfter running eraseDisk (which takes about 5 seconds) the SSD was then "recognised" by Mac OS as a disk. When running the "diskutil list" the blank SSD just comes up as an unnamed, unformatted drive (key is to check it is the correct disk by looking at the capacity ie.
#Crucial ssd format utility pro#
Installed the "blank" SSD into the MacBook Pro, booted MacBook Pro into Recovery mode and then used Terminal prompt to format the SSD using the diskutil eraseDisk script. In the end, I did what anrah has mentioned above. I also tried it on another notebook running Windows 10, and it was not recognised as a disk on Windows - when i plugged the dock into the Windows notebook, a message came up identifying it as a faulty USB device, but I could not see it as a disk in Disk Management on Windows. Put the new SSD in the dock, connected dock to MacBook Pro, but the SSD was not being recognised at all in Finder or in Disk Utility. The original HDD was still working (but painfully slow), so i had intended to use a SATA III to USB3.0 dock to clone the HDD to the new SSD prior to removing the old HDD and installing the SSD. I had the same issue - bought a new Samsung EVO 860 SSD for my early 2011 MacBook Pro 13 inch running OS X Yosemite.
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