SSD not showing in system anymore

azibux1

azibux1

azibux1

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Hi,

I have 2 x SSD and 1 x Blu-Ray drives.

So I removed my Blu-Ray drive SATA cable and added a HDD in its place for a temporary health check, and another HDD in a spare slot. They were at first both in spare slots but weren't showing up correctly (potentially a separate problem), and only seemed to show in the SATA slot the blu-ray is using so in the end I put them into that one by one and did the health checks.

I then removed the extra drives and powered on the PC forgetting to plug the Blu-Ray back in (seemingly irrelevant but thought I'd mention it). Anyway I noticed my SSD (the non-OS one) is no longer showing and says it need initialising before use now. Blu-Ray has since been plugged back and I've checked the connections on the SSDs.

Any idea on how this has happened (my SSD needing initialising) and how I can get it back properly without losing any data please?

I tried to initialise as GPT which didn't work as it doesn't meet the minimum size requirement, and initialise as MBR says 'The system cannot find the file specified'.

Any ideas please? Would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
 
mistersprinkles said:
You've made sure the drives are visible in BIOS and you've tried mounting them from disk management, yes?
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I will check this.

I don't believe there was a mount option, only "initialise" which wasn't working (details on specifics above)

Will check BIOS later when back from work
 
I'm digging into this but unfortunately at first glance it seems to be dead! :(

Was only bought in July 2014 and only had about 4000 hours powered on when I checked it just the other day. All seems a bit strange.

250GB 840 EVO

It isn't showing in BIOS.

Swapping power and data cables between my two SSDs and it is only ever the 500GB showing (and moving from 'P1' to 'P2'), the 250GB is not showing in BIOS

Putting the 250GB into a known working caddy brings up nothing at first but shows the following after about 4 minutes approximately timed (why the 4 minute delay, I'm not sure):

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Get this if I try and initialise as GPT:

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And this if I try for MBR:

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That message is different to the MBR one I posted in the first post ("The system cannot find the file specified") - whether or not that is because this is now in the caddy vs on the mobo I'm not sure

Any help please guys? Would really appreciate it! Didn't expect an SSD to die after just 3 years... :(

EDIT: Really not sure if this has or hasn't happened since me plugging those two drives in to health check them. That was 16th August and I find it hard to believe I wouldn't have noticed my second SSD missing since then... But I don't use it 'too' often so it is a possibility it happened then and I only just spotted it. I did notice that my desktop backgrounds weren't loading (stored on the 'dead' drive) but it has only just clicked as to why that was (never investigated it the past few days as I've just stuck the PC on to do some browsing / netflix before bed for a bit each day)

EDIT2: Just for completeness... I put another old HDD into the power and data cables the 250GB SSD was using and it shows fine in BIOS. Was going to test to see if the MBR initalise error changed back to "The system cannot find the file specified" with the SSD back on the mobo, but now it isn't even showing at all in disk management :(
 
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Does your motherboard support SATA Hot-Plug? If so, you can set a SATA port to hot-plug mode in BIOS, and save and restart, then stick the SSD's data cable into that SATA port while the computer is switched on. Note: I don't know all the ins and outs regarding this, just how I did it to rescue data on a drive once.

If it shows up like that, I'd try formatting it (after rescuing any data you may want).
 
Danny75 said:
Does your motherboard support SATA Hot-Plug? If so, you can set a SATA port to hot-plug mode in BIOS, and save and restart, then stick the SSD's data cable into that SATA port while the computer is switched on. Note: I don't know all the ins and outs regarding this, just how I did it to rescue data on a drive once.

If it shows up like that, I'd try formatting it (after rescuing any data you may want).
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Thanks I'll give that a go!

It does have that feature but I believe I have it disabled at the moment.
 
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