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Samsung 950 Pro (boot drive) became inaccessible?

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Last night I was going about business as usual, casual gaming and light reddit browsing. I updated my graphics card drivers because something was up with my monitors (completely unrelated and fixed). I thought that to fix my computer all I had to do was restart my computer and all would be good, sadly this is where I got thrown into windows recovery, okay not the most unusual thing but I'll go with it. Skip all the options in Windows recovery and go straight into windows, nothing. So then I hop over to the BIOS to find that my C: drive (950 pro) isn't even being detected. So I tried restarting and reinserting my SSD and nothing. My current solution is to use a spare SSD my brother had lying around to create a new install of windows just to see what's going on with the original 950 pro. It showed up in File Explorer but I was unable to access it. Formatting it hasn't done anything to other than clear the space, looking it up in disk management says that the drive is classified as "RAW" file system instead of the usual NTFS, I tried to format it again through disk management but It wouldn't let me. So this is where I need your guys' help, Is there anything I could do or am I just shit out of $350.

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SSDs are quite complicated to fix, because there are no stuck heads, crashing platters or other typical issues that a mech drive has. Go to a data recovery center, because it's much safer and cheaper.

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Can you RMA it? how long have you had it for?

Please quote my post, or put @paddy-stone if you want me to respond to you.

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6 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

Can you RMA it? how long have you had it for?

I've had it for maybe 2-3 months now I believe. Might go check out a data recovery center first to see if they can do anything about it.

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