is this ssd dead?

Threepwood · 5 Aug 2025 at 18:51

one of my son's drives, namely his 1TB game drive is not showing up in t'his pc', it shows in device manger, but not disk manager.Does this mean the SSD is dead? it's just a cheap no name ssd from elsewhere

Threepwood · 5 Aug 2025 at 20:03

deviation said:
Does it show up in the BIOS?

good question, no, it does not!

Threepwood · 5 Aug 2025 at 21:57

deviation said:
NVME or SATA? If it's SATA, it's probably one of the cables? I'd try reseating everything and if that doesn't work, swap the drives around and see if it'll appear in the BIOS then Windows.

SATA, tried reseating the leads, no dice!

Threepwood · 9 Aug 2025 at 03:41

new drive fixed the problem!