SSD Stopped working, No longer in BIOS

critterjohnson45

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Oct 11, 2017
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Hi, everyone.
Recently after a few strange happenings in Windows 10 (activation prompt, etc) the OS itself seemed to crash. Chrome worked fine, but the taskbar didn’t work, ans ctrl alt delete didn’t do anything.
So I did what anyone would do and restarted the PC.
It prompted me to insert media into the selected boot device, and press a key. I reseated the drive and started the PC again, with the same results, and that’s how it’s been ever since. My 1TB HDD works fine, so of course I tried switching out the cables to no avail. I tried putting the SSD into one of those things that makes it USB capable, with similar results.
The drive is a SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB.
 
Solution
If the SSD is dead then the controller chip on the SSD has most likely failed. You can't recover the data without replacing the controller chip with one that works.

USAFRet

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No, backups are what you do before the drive dies.
Be is SSD, HDD, cloud, whatever.

If the SSD is actually dead, there is little chance of getting anything out of it.

You tried a new cable.
You tried a USB dock.

Sounds like it is dead.