I have three drives in my computer (1 WD mechanical and 2 solid states, Kingston and Samsung). The Samsung is what I boot from, but my Kingston has quit showing up after a power outage a couple months back.
Is there any way to "fix" whatever is causing it to not show? I've plugged it into a different SATA port and used a new power port, but nothing has helped.
Posted Oct 9, 2017, 5:02 PM UTC
Have you checked if it shows up in the bios? You can also try plugging it into another computer to know if it is your pc or the ssd that has a problem.
If you are using windows, try ( win + r ) buttons and enter "cmd". And write "DISKPART" to window just poped out. It will open a new window and write "list disk". If you can see all the drivers you have, I believe it is a software issue. Maybe the power outage burned the Kingston.
BIOS would list available drives to some degree without any sort of Operating System reporting back. On boot of your computer you can probably press F12 or Del and go to a boot menu and boot to BIOS/Setup. Depends on motherboard manufacture. You should somewhere figure out all drives that are plugged in to various ports of your computer. If nothing reports back as being in whatever port it should be in - then the probability is the drive met its end of life.
Too lazy to restart- Windows on the bottom left is a Windows logo - right click (if right handed) and click 'computer management'. Under here will be a tool called 'Disk Management'. This is an easy graphical display of drives that Windows is able to see (even if it doesn't have a drive letter or is offline).
Linux.... Open a terminal and 'fdisk -l'
Or lsblk
This sounds crazy but, unplug the sata cables but leave power connected. Power the computer up for about 30mins, turn it off for 30 seconds and then power it back up for another 30mins. Turn it off, plug the sata cables back in and it just might show up
Can confirm, this fixed my drive for a while. Eventually it just went, so i have a feeling that it's an indicator that it's close to death.