SSD randomly stopped showing up

treehuimumbo

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Dec 12, 2015
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I just started having this problem about 30 minutes ago and decided to come here for a solution.

I've had this SSD for about a year now (Kingston). I never had windows installed on it until recently about a month ago, and it's been working perfectly fine. But recently I replaced my old HDD drive with a newer, faster one and as soon as I plugged in the HDD, my SSD randomly stopped showing up in the BIOS, so I can't boot windows on it anymore. It doesn't even show up in disk manager. I have windows installed on my old HDD, but also on my SSD and was waiting for my new HDD to ship in.

I unplugged my new HDD and plugged in my old HDD to see if it would help. Nothing so far.
My motherboard is a GigaByte GA-990FXA-UD3 and my new HDD is a Western Digital Black WD1003FZEX . Although I'm sure it's not my motherboard.

I never touched my SSD at all after installation, I don't understand why I'm having this problem. Did plugging in my HDD somehow kill my SSD? I don't understand.
 
Solution
Physically check all of the connectors. Sometimes they appear okay but need to be unplugged and reset.

Possible also that one of the connection cables has failed. Replace them with a known working cable.

Did you leave any jumpers on the newer hard drive?

Any beep noises during boot up time? If so, what is the pattern?

Physically check all of the connectors. Sometimes they appear okay but need to be unplugged and reset.

Possible also that one of the connection cables has failed. Replace them with a known working cable.

Did you leave any jumpers on the newer hard drive?

Any beep noises during boot up time? If so, what is the pattern?

 
Solution