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Yeah the power cycling procedure that Crucial posted is **bleep**.
What's happening is that when your SSD thinks the power supply is suspect (which with the current firmware means every time your computer turns off without shutting down) it locks itself to prevent further damage
The procedure that Crucial posted basically has you sit in idle to "convince" your SSD that your power supply is in fact stable by monitoring a period (like 15-20 min) of stable power.
Hard cycling is a common solution but the procedure that Crucial ennumerated only sporatically works.
One thing you guys could so is take a disk tool that can "wake" locked hard drives. I use Parted Magic. Boot into your repair USB or CD with Parted Magic (or whatever utility). As it loads itself it will wake your drive. When you get into the program, simply reboot and your SSD will be good to go.
It's worked every time for me. Alternatively you can struggle with the Crucial procedure, but any means of power cycling will work ie: removing the sata data cable and leaving the SSD plugged into the power for 5-??? minutes. **bleep** even constantly rebooting will eventually get you back in... the point being the Crucial procedure isn't a validated means of doing it more effectively. It's just a bunch of **bleep** that they posted which CAN fix your problem. It's one way. Is it the best way or even a efficacious way? Naw.
For me I wish there was a way to just get my SSD to stop doing this. I initially got a "unstable power supply detected" message a couple weeks ago and now any time I lose power for any reason it locks. IF ANYONE HAS A WAY TO TURN THIS OFF PLEASE POST IT.
Because my computer is a new system that's being fiddled with for overclocking, obviously there are a few system hangs, random boots etc. *keep it courteous* Again if anyone knows how to "untoggle" or reset the protection feature of locking itself, let's hear it

I have an M4 512Gb and I posted here how I fixed it not being recognised 3 times, I think. I did this in a laptop without removing the SSD. I installed it on 7 November and it has been fine for over 2 weeks now. If there are any problems I will report them here. I have 8 partitions on it with about 50% full. The partitions are Linux Ext4. I have lost no data and the system works perfectly now. Disk checks are carried out every 20 boots and they have been fine. I also have a Linux swap partition of about 8Gb which hibernates the computer perfectly. I am wondering if something in the SSD has settled down because I have had no problems since the first day or two. I have been purposely rebooting as often as I can with and without the battery to see if I can make the not being recognised problem reappear. So far it has worked fine. I feel pretty confident at the moment. I do back up my data partition very frequently just to be on the safe side. But I am really pleased with the speed of everything, the fact that I don't worry about bumping the laptop while using it travelling and the nearly doubled battery life. I hope this reassures you.

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