Computer Suddenly STOPPED Recognizing my SSD? Any Solutions?

[KylonM]

Out of nowhere yesterday, my computer wouldn't recognize my SSD. I can't do anything now because that was my boot drive. I tried changing each of the sata cables, power cables & SATA ports on the Mobo. EVERYTHING else was working. The Disc drive was showing up in BIOS, the Storage drive was showing up in the bios, but the SSD was not.

However, I decided to boot up my laptop and see if i could recognize any data on that SSD using my SATA to USB cable, and i was able to look at all of the files.... NONE of this makes any sense to me, why would it not be working in my PC but is willing to recognize it on my laptop? any ideas?

I tried resetting bios to defaults, using on-board video instead of my graphics card, manually changing the boot order & trying to use my windows disc to load into system restore (which didn't work because it was trying to install windows as if the machine was new).

System info:
CPU: i7-4790k @ 4.4ghz
GPU: MSI GTX 970 gaming 4g
RAM: 16GB g skill 2133
Heatsink: Hyper 212 evo
SSD: Samsung 850 Pro 256GB
HDD: WD Black 1TB
PSU: EVGA G2 750W gold rated 80+ blah blah blah

if you need to know anything else let me know

 

[Dunlop0078]

Well you can read from the SSD. Try to put something on the SSD while its in your laptop, this is called writing to the SSD and every SSD will die when it reaches a certain amount of writes, your SSD may have reached it. However its a 850 pro so im assuming its somewhat new, have you wrote to it a lot during its life? Or maybe defragged it?

 

[KylonM]

Well you can read from the SSD. Try to put something on the SSD while its in your laptop, this is called writing to the SSD and every SSD will die when it reaches a certain amount of writes your SSD may have reached it. However its a 950 pro so im assuming its somewhat new, have you wrote to it a lot during its life? Or maybe defragged it?

I haven't really done much with it... I've owned it less than a year. And I've never defragmented it. I don't believe it is dead because I was able to see the files on it on a seperate computer, however, my computer still isn't able to boot from it or recognize it in the bios.

 

[Dunlop0078]

Well you can read from the SSD. Try to put something on the SSD while its in your laptop, this is called writing to the SSD and every SSD will die when it reaches a certain amount of writes your SSD may have reached it. However its a 950 pro so im assuming its somewhat new, have you wrote to it a lot during its life? Or maybe defragged it?

I haven't really done much with it... I've owned it less than a year. And I've never defragmented it. I don't believe it is dead because I was able to see the files on it on a seperate computer, however, my computer still isn't able to boot from it or recognize it in the bios.

Seeing the files and being able to read them is one thing, but putting files on the drive is another. If the drive loses the ability to write it may not boot anymore but it will still retain the data that was on it. Here's a quote from an answers thread of someone asking what happens when an SSD dies below. I have no idea why this would happen so early in its life however so im not sure if im right, but it sounds like your ssd has used up all of its write cycles. I would call samsung and see what they say.

"In theory, it is possible to read data even after all program/erase (p/e) cycles have been used up. In fact, the JEDEC specifies that data on consumer-grade SSDs should be readable for one year after all p/e cycles have been exhausted. So the likelihood of losing data due to the drive reaching the end of its lifetime is small."