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I actually just read someone else is possibly having this issue but with their NVME drive. Everything was working great last night, i shutdown my PC booted it back up this morning to discover that my SSD wasn’t being detected. I had this issue a while back but turned out I had budged the SATA power cable a bit and it wasn’t fully plugged into the SSD, not this time though. I switched the SATA power cable and nothing, I switched the SATA data cable and nothing, I switched it to a different SATA port on my mobo and nothing. Finally I took the SSD out and put it in an external enclosure and it’s kind of being detected. But when i go to My PC it just shows as USB Drive G and is greyed out. When i go to Disk Manager it shows the drive as having no media. Just maybe 3 or 4 weeks ago i had checked the health of all my drives with Crystal Disc Info and everything was in good health. This SSD is maybe a year and a half old. I’ll link a Speccy report below. As stated in the title it’s a 1TB T-Force Vulcan Z drive.
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Forgetting the external enclosure for now, have you access to another PC that you could plug this SSD into as a secondary drive? -
Forgetting the external enclosure for now, have you access to another PC that you could plug this SSD into as a secondary drive?Comment
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I think my laptop has a bay for a second drive. if so i’ll see if it is detected in there.Originally posted by BruceComment
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I think my laptop has a bay for a second drive. if so i’ll see if it is detected in there.Originally posted by BruceComment
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just connected it to my laptops sata port and it’s not detecting. Not showing in My PC or Disk Manager.Comment
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just connected it to my laptops sata port and it’s not detecting. Not showing in My PC or Disk Manager.Comment
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While doing some researched I’ve seen it suggested on alot of videos and forums to try power cycling the drive by connecting power but not data and letting it sit with power going to it for a half hour to an hour. I’m going to give that a try. A guy on yt said it can some times take upto 3 tries for it to work but he said if it hasn’t worked by the third try then the drive is most likely toast.Comment
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While doing some researched I’ve seen it suggested on alot of videos and forums to try power cycling the drive by connecting power but not data and letting it sit with power going to it for a half hour to an hour. I’m going to give that a try. A guy on yt said it can some times take upto 3 tries for it to work but he said if it hasn’t worked by the third try then the drive is most likely toast.Comment
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I don’t understand the theory behind that process but hey, if it works, great.
I’ve said it before, if you lose faith in a drive’s reliability then it’s time to ditch that drive.
Let us know how it goes!Comment
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I don’t understand the theory behind that process but hey, if it works, great.
I’ve said it before, if you lose faith in a drive’s reliability then it’s time to ditch that drive.
Let us know how it goes!Comment
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okay just woke up, I tried that power cycling again last night and it didn’t work but I left it connected to my pc, data and power cables and magically it’s working now. I’m currently backing it up, I’ll still get rid of the drive though I’m not going to risk it failing again.Comment
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okay just woke up, I tried that power cycling again last night and it didn’t work but I left it connected to my pc, data and power cables and magically it’s working now. I’m currently backing it up, I’ll still get rid of the drive though I’m not going to risk it failing again.Comment
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Shall we close the thread then?Comment
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Shall we close the thread then?Comment
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