SSD no longer being recognised, Windows or BIOS

[SCATTER]

Hello,

Recently noticed my secondary SSD had completely disappeared, I checked device manager & BIOS and there is no longer any trace of it, the only drive which shows up is my primary SSD which works fine. The only odd thing that has changed is now whenever I boot the BIOS screen takes a while to go it never did this before (literally 60 seconds) whereas usually, it would boot straight to windows unless I spammed del to obviously intentionally open it.

The SSD is just over two years old and it's a SANDISK SanDisk SSD PLUS 480 GB. My motherboard is a Gigabyte Z270X-Ultra Gaming.


Any help would be great, I've already ordered a new SSD but would be great to be able to recover.


Thanks


SSD: SANDISK SanDisk SSD PLUS 480 GB
MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte Z270X-Ultra Gaming.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Do you have any M.2 drives in the system?

Using sata M.2 drive would disable SATA0 port on the motherboard.

 

[SCATTER]

Do you have any M.2 drives in the system?

Using sata M.2 drive would disable SATA0 port on the motherboard.

No sir,

Thanks for the suggestion

 

[smorizio]

if the vendor gives out any ssd tools see if the tools see it. on some drive there have been bad firmware that causes ssd to have power on death like yours. if it not a firmware bricking issue. pull the drive see if it seen in another pc or on another sata port. hopefully your power supply did not fry it.

 

[SCATTER]

if the vendor gives out any ssd tools see if the tools see it. on some drive there have been bad firmware that causes ssd to have power on death like yours. if it not a firmware bricking issue. pull the drive see if it seen in another pc or on another sata port. hopefully your power supply did not fry it.

Had a little look I haven't been able to find any associated software, do you know any way of seeing if it's outright dead?

Thanks

 

[SkyNetRising]

Had a little look I haven't been able to find any associated software

Sandisk SSD Dashboard
https://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/15108/

 

[SCATTER]

Had a little look I haven't been able to find any associated software

Sandisk SSD Dashboard
https://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/15108/

Thankyou.

no luck the program doesn't detect any Sandisk SSDs

 

[SkyNetRising]

Did you try connecting the drive to a different sata port?
Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?

 

[SCATTER]

Did you try connecting the drive to a different SATA port?
Can you show a screenshot of Disk Management?

I haven't tried changing SATA ports yet, definitely will do when I can

here's a screenshot of disk management -
https://gyazo.com/594ba1b85db61c4853221e2117f01a6b

 

[SkyNetRising]

Isn't the D: drive your SSD?

 

[SCATTER]

Isn't the D: drive your SSD?

C; drive is Windows
B; drive is the missing one
D; drive is my external ssd