Has my SSD gone the way of the dodo?

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So I have a OCZ Vertex 4 256gb that was bought a little over 3 years ago, and apart from wishing it was bigger haven't had a problem with it since I got it until today.

I installed Windows 10 earlier this week with the free upgrade and everything was going fine until today, while my kids where watching a film I got a blue screen informing me of a critical process error and that my computer would need to be restarted. I did and was then met with a 'bootmgr is missing, please press ctrl + Alt + Del to restart' message which after several attempts remained. I was able to get my hands on a Windows 10 boot disk to try and repair the problem but was met with no success, saying things like my drive was locked or that it couldn't repair the problem etc.

After not finding a solution online I decided to reformat and try a clean Windows 7 install with a view to doing the upgrade again, however then found that my SSD wasn't being detected so installed to a spare drive, the SSD is not showing in Windows or in the Bios and I have re seated both the power and sata cables.

I don't have a spare machine to try the drive in, so am hoping its that and not the motherboard.

What do you guys think?
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Sounds like it is un-serviceable. As you are able to install on another drive did you use the same sata port? If so this would point to the ssd being U/S.
 
I didn't use the same port as the spare drive was already installed and just being used for storage but I can have a swap round of the ports later.
 
Thats the exact same thing that happened to my Nephews Vertex drives (in raid). Installed Win 10 then a few days later BSOD with bootmgr missing. Repair / reset would not work.

Wiped the drives and re-installed windows and all looked fine. Installed all the remaining drivers etc and all looked ok. A few hours later the exact same issue, BSOD with bootmgr mssing.

Tested the drives in my PC and are both showing as healthy with no issues.

Re-installed windows 10 again on his PC but this timne on his mechanical drive and so far all is well (few days in).
 
So what, Windows 10 is killing SSD's?

The thing I find perplexing is that if it is just a software issue why is my drive now no longer being detected at all in bios. Even with Windows 7 installed on an old mechanical drive, the SSD is not showing as present anywhere.
 
Have tried the SSD in several different ports now and it's still not registering, think it's officially dead but fortunately still under Warranty.
 
Exact same thing happened to my Vertex. Plugged into an Asus P8P67 Pro IIRC. One day just bricked itself for no apparent reason, computer blue screened, drive wouldn't show in bios, nothing helped, sata cables, bios reset, started pulling memory, cards, it was totally dead.

However I did manage to fix it, pure chance really. I have no idea how it worked but, at work I have a bunch of HP workstations. I put the drive in an old XW8400 - that's a dual 51xx xeon with the 5000X chipset.

After I plugged it in in the XW8400 it was still missing in the bios. I reset the bios and it showed up right away. Something specific to that chipset that managed to unbrick it I think.

So, I took it home all pleased with myself, put it back in my PC and a week later - it happened again.

Put it back in the XW8400, reset the bios, unbricked the drive, left it in there and installed windows...

It's been the OS drive in that XW8400 working as an SQL server for the last three years, very close to 100% uptime - never missed a beat.
 
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