SSD Failed and is Beeping

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So I go to boot up my pc to listen to music whilst i build my new pc and Windows fails to load my 512gb Crucial M4. This happened once before a month ago and a quick disconnect/reconnect of the sata cable "fixed it".

Luckily I have a 240gb Evo 840 to use in the meantime but once I got my new pc built I plugged my crucial m4 into a usb 3.0 enclosure and though the USB is acknowledged nothing shows up in Win10 'This PC' tab, diskmgt, or even diskpart and the SSD itself is making a beeping sound almost like a generic sound effect from a 70's sci-fi movie.

Not seeing anyone at all with this issue via google, and though I'm sure I'm S-O-L. This is a bummer for many reasons as I was going to backup all the gamesaves on it(Mainly Witcher 3) and format it for use with my new build. any thoughts on how i can at least temporarily fix it to get my gamesaves?
 
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Its probably the motherboard not recognizing the drive, not the SSD itself in that case....
Boot to BIOS and check boot order to see if you can find the SSD.
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thats what i thought USA, but it is.and of course chug. its only the ssd in an enclosure via usb at this point. and the beeping crucial ssd in question housed my Win10 files as well as pretty much all apps but my gaming library. and I had all the temp files of windows routed to the secondary HDD as to take a lot of the stress off the SSD
 
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No SSD can beep. It is most likely your motherboard beeping telling you something is wrong. However it sounds like your are in windows and your are getting the generic connect and disconnect sounds rather than from booting up.
 
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I appreciate the help, and I mean no disrespect when I say this but I'm not a potato. I dont have the speaker/buzzer attached to my mobo as I never put them in any of my builds. but keep one nearby just on that random off chance one day one of my builds doesn't post...so it cant be that.

the Crucial M4 SSD used to be my main SSD with all my OS files on it but failed last night. I have since removed it from my old computer and it is in a usb enclosure plugged into the front usb port of the new computer I just built today. and it isnt making a beeping sounds per say but is making a faint sound similar to

the first 10 seconds of this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nAMqUut19k

and no im not trolling im serious.
 
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Well judging by your certainty it seems I have the anomaly which doesnt surprise me.. I'll record a video in a moment but in the meantime any idea of a way to recover my gamesaves?
 
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As mentioned earlier, we'd need a clearer picture of what, exactly, is on which drive.
What works, what fails, etc...

There is no 'thing' in an SSD that can make those noises.
 
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well nothing works except the fact windows shows me plugging in the external enclosures(and it beeps in both) but never shows the beeping crucial m4 in diskpart/diskmgmt/this pc. i cant access it in any way shape or form.

and here is it beeping. sorry for the scraping sound that was the corner of my phone going against the crucial m4 ssd

https://youtu.be/CATblLLTDGs

so maybe traditional SSD's have no speakers...but there is definitely noise coming from it.
 
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The 'best solution' is the one that works.
Connect that drive internally. See if it works, or even shows up. Take the enclosure and USB out of the equation.
 
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I already did. In both the computer it failed in and the new one i just built. it didnt show in either bios on an asrock z170 pro4s or an msi krait 3 gaming z170a on different sata 3 cables and different PSUs.
 
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Yes. The 512gb Crucial M4 SSD was my OS drive in my old pc until it failed a couple nights ago as I was building a new computer.

I'd like to recover some files from said ssd as my backup WD hdd seems to have been wiped accidentally or also failed(its 7 years old) and i have no chance of saving any of my data unless the ssd will boot in some fashion for a lil bit .

 
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To recap:

512GB Crucial - OS drive. Failed (why, we do not know)
840 EVO 250GB - New OS drive. A new OS install on this? Or something from before?

The 512 Crucial is not recognized, at all, either connected via USB, or connected internally. Is this the case?


However...
"This happened once before a month ago and a quick disconnect/reconnect of the sata cable "fixed it". "
This points to a cable or motherboard, not a dead Crucial.

Plus, the drive 'dying' as you are in the process of building a new PC. That is very strange timing.

Have you tried that 512GB Crucial with another PC?
A short list of what you have tried would help. (I know its all up there in previous replies, but just to recap)
 
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