Question SSD suddenly not detected anymore ?

[wesbz]

Hi,
Yesterday, after I left my laptop for 10min, I came back to it showing an error message. I run a SSD (Samsung 970 EVO Plus) with a dual boot windows 10/Ubuntu 20.04 and work 99% of the time on the latter. The desktop environment stopped and the error message seamed related to it so I paid no mind and just thought I had to reboot it. Nothing was responding so I restarted it.
My SSD wasn't detected anymore.
I tried working with different rescue tools on a different computer. At some point, randomly, the SSD showed up again. I tried making an image of the disk with CloneZilla. When reaching my Linux partition, CloneZilla failed. After that, the SSD was again undetected.
I don't know what to do... This seems so random. Nothing noticeable happened, as far as I can remember for this problem to happen.
Thanks in advance!

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

Can you please pass the make and model of the laptop? Can you check to see what BIOS version you're on for your laptop?

 

[wesbz]

Thank you for your reply
It's an ASUS UX480F laptop, BIOS version 2.20.1271.
It seems to me like the SSD just died as it is not visible to other computers too (I tried 4 different computers).
I'll take it to a disk recovery company and keep trying a few stuff and keep you posted.
By the same time, if you have recommendations, please let me know. Here is the tools I tried to operate on the disk without success:
- CloneZilla,
-fsck,
-e2fsck,
-testdisk,
-ddrescue,
-gparted,
-samsung magician,
-power cycle trick,
-windows' disk manager,
None of them can see the disk.