Bad SSD? Need Help!

[ShadowChaser]

It's the old boot drive from my Aero 15 that I just upgraded to a Toshiba - wanted to clone my files over but I left it in my workbench a little too long and Microsoft applied an update (New build of Windows).

Now, nearly 100% of the time it does not show up in BIOS, Disk Management, or Disk Part. When it is able to boot, it locks up either at the lock screen before I unlock it, or on the desktop, and BSODs to critical_process_died

What should I be doing to try and fix this? Is it hardware or software?

I did try it in a total of three different M.2 slots over 2 PCs and it doesn't show up in any, while a HP EX920 will show up in all three. (I'm guessing it's hardware so should I just RMA it to save some trouble?)

 

EDIT:

Was able to run an SFC Scan on it through sheer luck and it didn't fix the issue.

[kb5zue]

For any drive problems that I may have, I use AOMEI Partition Assistant.  I would put a link for it but for some reason LTT forums don't handshake very well with that website.  There is a free version of the AOMEI software and that is what I have been using for a long time.

[ShadowChaser]

3 hours ago, kb5zue said:

For any drive problems that I may have, I use AOMEI Partition Assistant.  I would put a link for it but for some reason LTT forums don't handshake very well with that website.  There is a free version of the AOMEI software and that is what I have been using for a long time.

Yeah, no. If it doesn't show up in Bios, disk management, disk part, and gparted it's not gonna show up in that either  

[kb5zue]

2 hours ago, ShadowChaser said:

Yeah, no. If it doesn't show up in Bios, disk management, disk part, and gparted it's not gonna show up in that either  

Evidently it must have shown up in the BIOS, otherwise the original poster would not have said this.

 

Was able to run an SFC Scan on it through sheer luck and it didn't fix the issue.

 

[ShadowChaser]

8 hours ago, kb5zue said:

Evidently it must have shown up in the BIOS, otherwise the original poster would not have said this.

 

Was able to run an SFC Scan on it through sheer luck and it didn't fix the issue.

 

Dat Me.

It only shows up once in a blue moon - corrupted drives do this until they are so corrupted they don't show any more