Kingston SSD is destroyed by T60p (2100 initialization error)

It is a very well known error when you try to upgrade the thinkpad harddisk to SSD.
The SSD I bought is Kingston SSDNow V100 Series SV100S2N/64GZ 2.5" 64GB which is this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139421
My thinkpad is T60p 2007CTO. After using this SSD for 1 month without any problem, I got the error message when I reboot the system "2100: hdd0 initialization error (1)".
My system is Windows 7 professional.
This error for me, triggered by plugging the ThinkPad Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay with a Seagate Momentus 500G internal hard drive.
Before that, I have used the Thinkpad IDE Hard Drive Bay for a long time.
I am not sure who actually trigered the problem. Serial ATA Hard Drive Bay or Seagate Momentus 500G hard drive ?
I tried to upgrade BIOS without success. I also tried to put this SSD into external USB driver and plug it under Windows 7, Windows XP and Linux. Linux can see the partitions but cannot format or mount them. I cannot see this SSD disk using Windows disk manager. Sometimes Ican see the disk in Windows Explorer, but still cannot read the data in it.
I have read a lot of posts before I ask for help. Now, what I ONLY want to do is saving my SSD hard driver.
Any suggestion or solution would be very appreciate.
Thanks in advance.
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Hello,
I have been using the previous model (64GB Kingston V+) in an X100e with no apparently ill effects for a little over half a year now. Obiviously, different models, but I wonder if the problem is due to some failure of the SSD. I had another brand of SSD which completely failed after having more and more timeouts after about ten hours of use, so it does seem there are some new failure modes to SSDs that we may not see with conventional rotating media type hard disk drives.
Have you checked with Kingston? They may have some specific tools or recommendations for accessing data on the disk.
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