Question Crucial P3 500GB SSD is suddenly not detected by my laptop at all ?

[CardinalSin]

I have two SSDs. A Samsung 256GB SSD that came with the laptop and also contains the OS (hence i was able to boot). But the Crucial P3 SSD that I bought and have been using for a year, just disappeared.

It doesn't appear in Windows Explorer, Disk Management, Device Manager, CrystalDiskInfo or in the BIOS.

 

[mc_spaceman]

I have two SSDs. A Samsung 256GB SSD that came with the laptop and also contains the OS(hence i was able to boot). But the Crucial SSD that I bought and have been using for a year, just disappeared.

Doesn't appear in Windows Explorer, Disk Management, Device Manager, CrystalDiskInfo or the BIOS.

sounds to me that it could be a few different scenarios..

1. hit the end of its life, and all data is gone.. one problem with SSD's.. no warning signs of complete failure.
2. check the connection.. take it out of the laptop and try to plug it back in again.
3. take it out and try it in a regular pc or another system, with a usb dongle/hard drive hub, or direct plug with a sata cable..

if it is not displaying in bios at all anymore, on any computer you test it on, im afraid it hit the end of life; and with it being a SSD, data is not easily recoverable in entirety. you can send it off to a company to pull the memory chips and see what data they can recover from them. but typically when ssds are done, they are simply done..


e/ i could be wrong though.. maybe a mfr defect in the p3's? there are quite a few other posts lately specifically with problems of the drive disappearing from even the bios.

 

[CardinalSin]

sounds to me that it could be a few different scenarios..

1. hit the end of its life, and all data is gone.. one problem with SSD's.. no warning signs of complete failure.
2. check the connection.. take it out of the laptop and try to plug it back in again.
3. take it out and try it in a regular pc or another system, with a usb dongle/hard drive hub, or direct plug with a sata cable..

if it is not displaying in bios at all anymore, on any computer you test it on, im afraid it hit the end of life; and with it being a SSD, data is not easily recoverable in entirety. you can send it off to a company to pull the memory chips and see what data they can recover from them. but typically when ssds are done, they are simply done..


e/ i could be wrong though.. maybe a mfr defect in the p3's? there are quite a few other posts lately specifically with problems of the drive disappearing from even the bios.

Pulled out the SSD, no sign of damage, wiped it and put it back in, no difference.

I ordered an NVMe adapter from Amazon as I currently don't have another PC to test the SSD on.

There were no warning signs, SMART showed no errors last time I checked a couple weeks ago. The data wasn't that important as it mostly had games.

Will update when I check with the adapter.

 

[WednesdayThursdayFriday]

Can you try booting into Safe Mode? https://www.crucial.com/support/articles-faq-ssd/ssd-not-booting-after-cloning

 

[mc_spaceman]

as 1 additional troubleshooting option, i neglected to include in my first post.
this will obviously only work if both your primary and this problematic ssd are both m.2 or both sata.

pull your samsung ssd and swap your storage into it if you can. try booting into bios with it and see if it recognises? maybe the 2nd connection died? if it isn't the ssd itself? do not put samsung ssd on 2nd bus until and if the 2nd ssd recognises in the primary slot in bios.

 

[CardinalSin]

Can you try booting into Safe Mode? https://www.crucial.com/support/articles-faq-ssd/ssd-not-booting-after-cloning

Tried it, made no difference.

 

[CardinalSin]

as 1 additional troubleshooting option, i neglected to include in my first post.
this will obviously only work if both your primary and this problematic ssd are both m.2 or both sata.

pull your samsung ssd and swap your storage into it if you can. try booting into bios with it and see if it recognises? maybe the 2nd connection died? if it isn't the ssd itself? do not put samsung ssd on 2nd bus until and if the 2nd ssd recognises in the primary slot in bios.

Both are NVMe SSD slots, and not SATA SSDs. The samsung SSD is of the short(2242) form factor and the Crucial SSD that i bought is of the long(2280) form factor, dunno if i can switch them as there isn't enough space in the laptop motherboard.