Question NVMe Samsung 970 EVO Plus suddenly disappeared from windows and bios

[themadlieut]

hi, after turning the pc on today i had a bsod 2 minutes in, after the integrity checks pc rebooted and loaded the secondary SO that is on another disk, so i rebooted and checked bios to set back again to the NVMe (wich is the one with windows 10 on it) but it doesn't show up at all

it's a new drive with around 3 weeks of life, everything was fine up until today, no new programs or big updates made (afaik)

mobo is a Gigabye GA-H270-HD3

 

[themadlieut]

update:

today at start up it checked the integrity check telling me that there was a problem on a drive (yesterday it turned off normally) this drive didn't have a letter assigned but "?", at some point it found an error, tried to delete a file, and after about 10 minutes it was still there and pc wasn't doing anything so I rebooted, checked from bios if it saw it (it didn't) and then loaded windows normally

it's as if for a moment it saw it but without realising what drive it was and without being able to read it clearly, needless to say now it doesn't appear anywhere again, so I'd say the problem is not on the software side, I guess it's actually the disk....

 

[In2Photos]

I would first try a different slot on the motherboard if one is available. If that doesn't work then I'd return the drive or RMA it if it's outside the return window.

 

[themadlieut]

I would first try a different slot on the motherboard if one is available. If that doesn't work then I'd return the drive or RMA it if it's outside the return window.

only 1 slot on this mobo sadly

update 2: after cold boot today it started another integrity check (still labeling it as "?") this time however it started correcting tons of errors...until it got stuck again, i'll try few more things today but i'm very likely just get a replacement