My Acer Aspire S7 had RAM failure and couldn't boot up any more. It starts and the fans whiz and nothing displays on the screen. The RAMs are soldered to the motherboard. However, I remove the mSata to access the data I have in it externally only to be detected as half size. I install it on my ThinkPad T430s and it displays the same thing. I can not be able to access the other half that contains the information I need. Does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
I did that, but this is a specially designed mSata for Acer Aspire S7. It is only Aspire S7 that can recognise both partitions as one on raid 0. There is no solution online. People who did the same thing as me are getting the same result I am getting.
I have tried that before and it couldn't detect the hidden partition. This is a specially designed mSata for Acer Aspire S7 . I believe only BIOS mod that can solve the problem.
If you want to get any advice or suggestion, you should give more information, because there are many different versions/variants of both Acer Aspire S7 and ThinkPad T430s and they are very different from each other. It is also in no way possible to understand what this so-called mSata is. Very specific data are needed. It is very important to know if it is 2x64 GB (2 x 64 GB = 128 GB) on a single chip or something else. For example, 1x128 GB is a single chip. Often they are not interchangeable and then only one of them will work, ie only 64GB and 128GB will be never available on such a computers. If you provide more information perhaps then it is possible to suggest something, not before. PS. I also deeply doubt that there was a problem with your computer's RAM, because such things don't usually occur. I don't see anything strange there, like have been wondered above.
I found something, but it may not help You, but only now You know, that is is really two self standing SSDs in one and it may not work on other computers, where in BIOS not such a thing enabled. So, I think, You can use/try it in other Acer S7, but it's very real, it may not work on Lenovo. To gain access to your data, You probably need to find a computer that uses the same system. I can't think of anything else. There is also similar CMT-256L3M for Acer S7 ------------------------------------------------------------ Posted: Thursday, December 20th 2012 Lite-On Develops Strange New mSATA SSD Design for Acer On taking apart the Acer S7 Ultrabook, The SSD Review discovered a strange new SSD form-factor, which bears the label of Lite-On, and carrying the model number "CMT-180L3M." This is perhaps the first mSATA SSD with two independent SSD subunits, one on each side. The mSATA interface itself is modified to have two SSD ports. The drive registers on the system BIOS as two individual drives, which is then run as a 180 GB (physical) RAID 0 volume by the BIOS and operating-system. Each of the CMT-180L3M's two subunits feature a Marvell 88S9175 controller, which supports SATA 6 Gb/s interface, two 64 GB dual-channel 24 nm toggle NAND flash memory chips by Toshiba, and a Nanya-made DRAM cache chip. Putting the drive through sequential-friendly benchmarks such as CrystalDiskMark shows a sequential read speed of the drive (combined with its two subunits) to be around 877 MB/s, with sequential writes up to 672 MB/s. Multi-subunit SSDs aren't new, most high-end consumer SSDs from the pre-TRIM, pre-SandForce era used to be dual- to quad-subunit drives. The CMT-180L3M is the first one in the super-compact mSATA form-factor, and its performance numbers could impress more Ultrabook designers.
In does type of machines u can only run mSATA SSD that are compatible for does models if not they will not work sense they use two one bios other for storage kind of a pain when u have to trouble shoot.