Question A device which does not exist was specified. Any fix?

[Katenso Chhakchhuak]

My internal SATA SSD 1TB was working absolutely fine until last afternoon, it doesn't show up in windows, and it says "A device which does not exist was specified". After several restarts, it somehow showed up and I managed to run "HDTunePro" to check for errors. Everything was fine from HDTunePro. Later it just disappears from windows again. I changed the SATA Slot, and it starts to work again. But now it stopped showing up again. What could be the reason? What could be the solution to fix this?


Screenshot link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zaIaqMbz5omc4STcjndNRZwrDel_7xq6/view?usp=sharing

 

[popatim]

Could be a bad cable or connection, bad Sata port, or an SSD going bad.
Definitely try a new Sata cable and port before saying its the SSD.

 

[Katenso Chhakchhuak]

Well, its a laptop, there are 2 SATA slots, I tried in both, but still doesn't work, I'll try to use the SSD with an external cable ( SATA to USB) and check it out.

 

[Katenso Chhakchhuak]

i tried using sata to usb, but no luck, i guess the SSD is gone/dead