Question SSD shows up in bios not in windows

[McBleno]

I’ve had this drive for over 1 year as basically just a place to store steam games it’s a 1tb nvme ssd pcie gen3 it stopped showing up in windows yesterday evening. Now it does show up but everything on it is inaccessible it just either doesn’t open or it gives me an error files are missing. Bad drive? I tried to reseat it but didn’t do anything. I thought maybe it’s the psu but wouldn’t other components fail like the gpu?

Shows up in finder
Shows up in disk management
Shows up in bios
Does not show up in Crystal disk at all previously when it did overall health was good

Rest of system
3700x
2070s
B450M Giga
16Gb DDR4
Silicon power 1tb nvme m.2 pcie SSD gen3 2280
Western digital 2tb HDD
Western digital 256gb SATA SSD
600w psu

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[Lutfij]

it stopped showing up in windows yesterday evening. Now it does show up but everything on it is inaccessible it just either doesn’t open or it gives me an error files are missing. Bad drive?
Yes, an SSD with a corrupt controller can prevent you from accessing it or even formatting it.

BIOS version for your motherboard at this point of time? 600W is the advertised wattage of the unit, what is the make and model of the PSU and it's age?

 

[McBleno]

it stopped showing up in windows yesterday evening. Now it does show up but everything on it is inaccessible it just either doesn’t open or it gives me an error files are missing. Bad drive?
Yes, an SSD with a corrupt controller can prevent you from accessing it or even formatting it.

BIOS version for your motherboard at this point of time? 600W is the advertised wattage of the unit, what is the make and model of the PSU and it's age?

Bios version is F50a
Psu Apevia prestige atx pr600w gold
I have had it since 2/20

Update: tried to reformat drive in Disk management it erased it but could not format so now it’s just a raw drive unable to format. Any advice?

 

[McBleno]

Hey hey so no one actually was of any real help on this site as per usual so I’ll just post what I will do and that could help some people I hope in my situation.

Originally I assumed my PSU is bad so my drive just wasn’t getting power but this was an nvme on the motherboard not even directly connected to the psu so I had major doubts. After asking around and only getting help from discord pchelp subreddit I was told to test the drive in a case that cost about as much as the drive itself. I thought it was the psu because my windows would not boot and would take ages to shut down, it turns out this drive was the issue!

Drive controller is bad so bios hangs hoping it will come back online so you can have access to your drive even if OS isn’t on drive modern PCs will do this. Pc would not shut down fast because it was waiting for signal that drive is powering down. Bad controller equal no signal. Once the nvme ssd was out of my pc all bad behavior booting and shutdown ceased immediately.

What I did is took the drive literally popped it into a pc repair shop pc they just let me do it and yeah drive was no good. Showed up but nonfunctional.
Sent drive back to Silicon power they will replace, bought a 970evo and I’ll use that one maybe in sata dongle or back up (the ssd was fine but very slow overall not a good buy) to be safe I also got thermaltake smart bx1 650 bronze psu as I was told my psu is not good overall. All of this very hard to do without access to another pc which I did not have with a nvme mobo hence looking for ideas online. Hopefully this can help someone someday.