Question SSD Fried?

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Hello. I would like to apologise for my english at the beggining.
Some time ago i bought V-NAND SSD 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 drive and plugged it into M.2 sockets in my motherboard (Asus Prime Z270-p motherboard) and used it as storage drive. Yesterday i decided that its time to move my windows from hdd to ssd but after trying to migrate OS / copy drive i have just went with the clean installation.
I was trying my best to install clean windows 10 on my ssd drive but after installation from pendrive i couldnt boot the windows on it. It was always visible when selecting destination drive in windows installer, the problems were in BIOS because it was not recognised there. After messing with BIOS settings i have decided to plug in the ssd into one SATA cable (i had few ziptied alongside with eachoter so i thought its just extra spare cables to use) when i plugged it and turned my PC it immidiately shut down. I couldnt turn it on, only after plugging it out of power source and removing ssd from SATA cable. After that not only my BIOS doesnt recognise the ssd but also the windows instalator which displayed it everytime. Also my SSD doesnt get hot or even warm after i plug it in into M2. sockets in my motherboard. Does that mean the ssd is toased and i cant use it for anything? (I am still hoping it is caused by some BIOS setting that i switched but that hope is fading away ;/) Also i cant check it with different machine cus i have only one PC. Is there some other way to check if the ssd is faulty?

If its indeed burnt, do you think i can use some other ssd than samsung v-nand 970 evo plus? I really would like to switch from hdd to something faster but i am afraid i will have the same windows installation problems.
 
Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Out of curiosity, Id like to know how you got an M.2 SSD connected to a SATA port on the motherboard. Can you parse images for the issue you speak of? Host your images on Imgur and then parse a link to said images.

As for your build, can you please parse your specs like so:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:

Just for the sake of relevance can you mention which slot you dropped the Samsung 970 Evo Plus into on your motherboard prior to the mishap? Include the age of the PSU in your build apart from the make and model and the wattage of said unit.
 
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CPU: I7-7700 3.60 GHz
Motherboard: Asus Prime Z270-P
Ram: 16 gb
HDD: TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 1 TB
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 6GB
PSU: Modecom ATX Feel 520W 120mm
Chassis: Cooler Master Elite 330U
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64 bit

I have plugged the ssd into this slot on the picture
View: https://i.imgur.com/N1P7oNC.jpg

View: https://i.imgur.com/eMYiNdK.jpg


This SSD has an e-fuse (STEF4S). There may be a way to recover the data, if you have access to a multimeter and soldering iron.

See the 10-pin IC marked "AtAIT":

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13761/IMGP4409.jpg
So you re saying theres only a way to recover data but drive itself cant be used again? I am not interested in recovering data from it because i had mostly games installed there.