Two days ago, my SSD stopped showing up on my computer (it doesn’t show up in file explorer, disk mgt., device mgt., bios). There was little warning of drive failure; i was downloading a new game to it that morning (had to restart a failed download twice, but the third time succeeded). It’s been humming along without issue for a couple of years now. There are some personal projects, photos, maybe game saves i’d like to retrieve if possible. Any ideas or tips would be helpful?

So far i’ve tried:

• restarting
• scanning with device mgr, disk mgr, in the bios
• power cycling the drive with the sata unplugged
• switching the sata cable to another port (no show)
• switching out the drive for a blank drive(no show as well)

next steps are to try cloning the drive with a 2 bay docking station

spec info:

• drive: 1 TB western digital SA510, working as the secondary drive.
• OS: Windows 10

Edit: thanks for the advice. It looks like this is out of my range of abilities to recover so I’m looking to a professional service now. Let me know of a good data recovery service in the greater Vancouver area of you know of one.