SSD stopped being detected

[M87AM9L]

Hello,
So the SSD is working again, but Im still worried about the ocurrence. So I booted up a game and it immeadiately crashed, followed by a Windows Error and a reboot. I thought nothing by it, and tried to start the game again, when I realized the SSD is gone. Neither Diskmangagement nor Device Manager detected it, I immeadiately went to the bios only to see its not recognised there either. So I took my pc apart, took a look at it and saw no damages. I assumed it may be an connection error, because when I unscrewed it the screw felt a bit loose, so I plugged everything back in and booted up my PC and everything was fine. I assume it was loosely connected to the port, but Im still worried if theres a bigger issue.

The SSD is quiet close to the GPU and CPU, so it might get too hot there. I still have the motherboard heat panel somewhere, I didnt install it, because I heard SSDs work fine without it, but if the area is getting too hot and too dangerous I might install it now.

Also when I first installed the SSD I had to create a partition in Disk Management, so I could use it. Maybe I did a mistake here, the other SSD with Windows on has multiple partitions.

I appreciate any answers and tips to be more careful in the future.

[Bruce]

Windows creates whatever partitions it deems fit as it installs.
is this problematic SSD the 2.5" sort, m.2, or a NVMe attached directly to the motherboard?
sounds like the later, and the heat shield is probably more like a heatsink to dissipate built up heat rather than protect it from other heat sources.
so yeah, put that on!

[M87AM9L]

Windows creates whatever partitions it deems fit as it installs.
is this problematic SSD the 2.5" sort, m.2, or a NVMe attached directly to the motherboard?
sounds like the later, and the heat shield is probably more like a heatsink to dissipate built up heat rather than protect it from other heat sources.
so yeah, put that on!

Yes it is a NVMe SSD, thank you for the reply, I will put the heat sink on.
Do you have any other tips to prevent another incident like this?

[Bruce]

assuming the screw was lose, drive not installed all the way maybe, and heat - we may have already found the issue. (y)

if it does it again, my money is on a faulty drive.
is this drive new?

[M87AM9L]

Yes, its new. Im really thankful for your replies. I was really worried there was a larger problem. Again you have all my gratitude.

[Bruce]

time will tell.
let’s leave this open for a couple of days and see how it goes.

[veeg]

Any updates?

[Rustys]

Closing thread and marking appropriately