dickster Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Running a 2.5 SSD (256gb) as my os drive. I also have a Crucial 1tb M.2 drive that I use for storage and for my virtualbox folder. For about the last 4-5 months the 1tb SSD will just disappear. The only way I can get it back is to pull the side off the pc and remove and reinstall the drive. Then it works fine until the next time it decides to shut off. Tried a reformat and reinstall of everything but no help. The drive is only about 8 months old so I doubt it's bad. Any SSD guys out there that might have a clue as to what the problem is? TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigsy Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Have you tried plugging the SSD into a different controller? Might be a bad connection or the controller is giving up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickster Posted November 14, 2021 Author Share Posted November 14, 2021 There is only 1 m.2 slot on the motherboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomk_ Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 This isn't a solution, but it might save you from having to pull things apart. Next time it happens, open the device manager (type devmgmt.msc in the run box.) and go to IDE ATA/ATPI controllers. Drop down the box and right click on your controller channel and uninstall the device. Reboot your system and it should restart it. No screw driver required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tx Redneck Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 You could get a usb to nvme "case"/adapter and see if that persists, if so, maybe seek an rma. Tx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickster Posted November 17, 2021 Author Share Posted November 17, 2021 Sorry Tomk, forgot to mention I'm running linux so no device manager. TX Thought about that but would like to get this resolved without extra expense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomk_ Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 I should have known that. It's not like you have kept that a secret. I'm assuming that you cannot unmount the drive and then remount it...because you can't "see" it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigsy Posted November 18, 2021 Share Posted November 18, 2021 Not sure which flavor of Linux you are running but running command line and using lsusb and lspci to see listed devices and mountpoints or lspci -nnk for drivers; you could also see if 'hardinfo' is available in the software repo; like device manager but for Linux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickster Posted November 21, 2021 Author Share Posted November 21, 2021 Yep, can't mount or unmount it since I can't see it. Going to try a usb enclosure to see if the drive stays alive. nigsy, hardinfo doesn't show the drive and it's not listed in the bios. The only way I can get it to show again is the remove it from the slot and then reinstall it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigsy Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 4 hours ago, dickster said: nigsy, hardinfo doesn't show the drive and it's not listed in the bios Have you got Gparted installed? Run it and see if you can manually mount it from there. If not then I would go with an external USB enclosure as you've mentioned - but it sounds like there's an issue with the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickster Posted November 21, 2021 Author Share Posted November 21, 2021 Gparted doesn't see it either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tx Redneck Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 Is it seen in Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickster Posted November 21, 2021 Author Share Posted November 21, 2021 Since I run linux I wouldn't see it in windows. The only windows is in my virtualbox and that is on the SSD drive. It wasn't showing earlier when I checked so I pulled it and put it in the enclosure. Seems to be working for now and the virtualbox is running. Hopefully it stays that way. And THANKS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tx Redneck Posted November 21, 2021 Share Posted November 21, 2021 Ahhh, sounds good and hope it does what you're needing! Tx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickster Posted November 29, 2021 Author Share Posted November 29, 2021 Well, the drive does the same thing. Disappears every so often. But since I have the external enclosure plugged into the front usb port it's real easy to just unplug and replug. No more having to pull the pc apart to fix the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tx Redneck Posted November 29, 2021 Share Posted November 29, 2021 Well dang, I hoped for a different result, but I guess this is a workaround. Tx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dickster Posted December 10, 2021 Author Share Posted December 10, 2021 The weirdness continues. Yesterday I had something running on my virtualbox on the drive. I left for a few hours and left it running. When I returned, the drives icon on my desktop was gone. Checked the disks showing on my pc and it wasn't there. I figured all my work on the virtualbox was gone but I opened it to be sure. It was still there and still running! So now I have a drive that disappears but still works. Got me scratching my head! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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