Unrecognized 16GB SSD

[giantgreengoat]

I had Eeebuntu and I shut off my system, when I brought it back up the /home/usr 16gb was gone. I've had the problem before and so I was ready with my restore copy of Xandros via USB. Sadly Xandros was unable to recover the disk due to the superblocks did not match. I then tried Easy Peasy, installed it and tried to recover the drive via Gparted. Gprated sees it and can delete the partition, but when I try to make a partition on it it doesn't "stick." It says its done, but it doesn't show in Nautilus and if I close and reopen, reboot or not (I tried both), Gparted gives me an error that it does not recognize the partition. I tried to format it with Gparted using both "Round to Cylinders" and not, with no success.

I have had my SSD "vanish" before, is my SSD going, or has it gone, out on me? I just bought the box new in November and so I still have my one year warranty.

[giantgreengoat]

fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-200
e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-200
fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/sdb1
Could this be a zero-length partition?

[giantgreengoat]

Anyone know how to interpret these findings? I looked up the zero partition thing and I saw a post somewhere else about extended file systems vs logical drives. Back in the day I remember that being applicable for fdisk when you were wiping a drive, but when I run something like GParted and I do a "format" to say, ext3, I only get that choice and it seems to work then ends up being unrecognized after the device refresh occurs. Thanks.

ADDENDUM:

Still nothing, but I did note that the power cord was not plugged in during the cold boot and I vaguely recall a post somewhere about loosing drives on battery powered cold boots, but that seems like a different issue. Just a mention.

[giantgreengoat]

GParted 0.3.8

Libparted 1.8.9

Delete /dev/sdb1 (unknown, 15.03 GiB) from /dev/sdb 00:01:21 ( SUCCESS )

calibrate /dev/sdb1 00:00:41 ( SUCCESS )

path: /dev/sdb1
start: 63
end: 31519529
size: 31519467 (15.03 GiB)
delete partition 00:00:40 ( SUCCESS )

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Create Extended Partition #1 (extended, 15.03 GiB) on /dev/sdb 00:00:05 ( ERROR )

create empty partition 00:00:05 ( ERROR )
libparted messages ( INFO )

Input/output error during write on /dev/sdb

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[Rubberman]

It sounds like your SSD may be rolling tits up (dying). Does the system have any self-diagnostics capability?