My drive was working perfectly fine, and I plugged in an SD card reader device to my computer and booted my computer up, and it got stuck at loading windows, so I shut it down and started windows startup repair - which then started to attempt repairs. I waited around 10 minutes, and it was still on that, so (very poor decision) I decided to hold down the power button for 10 seconds, and was just going to unplug the SD card reader and try it another time. When computer turned back on though, the drive couldn't be even found by the BIOS, and therefore couldn't even be launched into windows on the drive.
I tried a couple different tools(parted magic, seagate tool etc), but I'm guessing if the BIOS can't even see the drive, they wouldn't be able to either ( and they couldn't). I also tried resetting the BIOS and that didn't work. I don't know what else to do from here, other than maybe having to fork over some money for data retrieval services.
What do I do from here? Is there any easy way to get my drive to be seen again by the BIOS? What might have happened? (seems like it wasn't trigged from a hardware error). Also the drive is an SSD if that helps.
EDIT: Just tried on another computer - didn't show up in that one either - I guess it's officially dead, still confused how it could die just from a windows repair tool though...
I tried a couple different tools(parted magic, seagate tool etc), but I'm guessing if the BIOS can't even see the drive, they wouldn't be able to either ( and they couldn't). I also tried resetting the BIOS and that didn't work. I don't know what else to do from here, other than maybe having to fork over some money for data retrieval services.
What do I do from here? Is there any easy way to get my drive to be seen again by the BIOS? What might have happened? (seems like it wasn't trigged from a hardware error). Also the drive is an SSD if that helps.
EDIT: Just tried on another computer - didn't show up in that one either - I guess it's officially dead, still confused how it could die just from a windows repair tool though...
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