My SanDisk SSD not recognisable anymore

Vani__

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Mar 5, 2016
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I have cloned my HDD to SSD using "EZ" that is recomended by SanDisk. The cloning went well.

After that I have seen in the disk management that the SSD is now 1TB (orriginally was 120GB) and that it was online.

I tried to chenge disk and to boot the computer with the new disk. It just went to the spinning dots at the begining of the boot process. And it got stuch there.

Then I booted from the old disk to google the problem. It seams I need to disable safe boot and Virtualisation. Did that - same problem.

Now that I left the problem alone for few days, because I needed to get some work done, I tried again.

Now the disk is not recognised by nothing. Not by diskpart, not by bios, not by disk manager. Like it just died.

Lep me save my disk :)
 
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Hi Vani__.

It really sounds like the SSD is at fault here, but in order for you to be sure, you should try a few things. Connect the drive to a different computer either externally (via SATA to USB adapter, external enclosure or a docking station), or internally via a standard SATA connection, to see if the drive is recognized. If it is - download an SSD diagnostic tool and test it for errors. You should also update its firmware if you have any updates available for that specific model.
Ultimately if nothing works for you and the drive is still under warranty, I'd advise you to contact its manufacturer's customer support and ask if you can RMA it.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
Hi Vani__.

It really sounds like the SSD is at fault here, but in order for you to be sure, you should try a few things. Connect the drive to a different computer either externally (via SATA to USB adapter, external enclosure or a docking station), or internally via a standard SATA connection, to see if the drive is recognized. If it is - download an SSD diagnostic tool and test it for errors. You should also update its firmware if you have any updates available for that specific model.
Ultimately if nothing works for you and the drive is still under warranty, I'd advise you to contact its manufacturer's customer support and ask if you can RMA it.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD
 
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