SSD stopped being detected

Levicu

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Hello,
So the SSD is working again, but Im still worried about the ocurrence. So I booted up a game and it immeadiately crashed, followed by a Windows Error and a reboot. I thought nothing by it, and tried to start the game again, when I realized the SSD is gone. Neither Diskmangagement nor Device Manager detected it, I immeadiately went to the bios only to see its not recognised there either. So I took my pc apart, took a look at it and saw no damages. I assumed it may be an connection error, because when I unscrewed it the screw felt a bit loose, so I plugged everything back in and booted up my PC and everything was fine. I assume it was loosely connected to the port, but Im still worried if theres a bigger issue.
The SSD is quiet close to the GPU and CPU, so it might get too hot there. I still have the motherboard heat panel somewhere, I didnt install it, because I heard SSDs work fine without it, but if the area is getting too hot and too dangerous I might install it now.
Also when I first installed the SSD I had to create a partition in Disk Management, so I could use it. Maybe I did a mistake here, the other SSD with Windows on has multiple partitions.
I appreciate any answers and tips to be more careful in the future.
 
I assume we are talking about an M.2 NVME SSD? What motherboard are you using? The heat shield probably helps the drive stay tight so I would definitely put it back on. What exact drive do you have?

Also when I first installed the SSD I had to create a partition in Disk Management, so I could use it. Maybe I did a mistake here, the other SSD with Windows on has multiple partitions.
No mistake there. On new blank drives you have to format/partition it before you can use it.
 
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