Two days ago, my SSD stopped showing up on my computer (it doesn’t show up in file explorer, disk mgt., device mgt., bios). There was little warning of drive failure; i was downloading a new game to it that morning (had to restart a failed download twice, but the third time succeeded). It’s been humming along without issue for a couple of years now. There are some personal projects, photos, maybe game saves i’d like to retrieve if possible. Any ideas or tips would be helpful?
So far i’ve tried:
- restarting
- scanning with device mgr, disk mgr, in the bios
- power cycling the drive with the sata unplugged
- switching the sata cable to another port (no show)
- switching out the drive for a blank drive(no show as well)
next steps are to try cloning the drive with a 2 bay docking station
spec info:
- drive: 1 TB western digital SA510, working as the secondary drive.
- OS: Windows 10
I think it’s beyond a software fix at this point. I haven’t had a flicker of life from the drive after switching power/sata cables, a usb drive enclosure and a hdd docking station (i’ve confirmed the external devices work with a different drive). I’m all for booting to linux, but the bios doesn’t report that anything is connected when going through the sata ports.