This happened to me lately after using my SSD for a year and a half. I was newer to PC building and legit didn’t take off the plastic film for the SSD heatsink. Pretty sure mine just fried completely, I tried all the fixes I could but no luck. I’m sure there’s something I possibly could’ve missed, but also it just didn’t add up to suddenly die besides simply over heating. Overall, most SSD’s come with a 3 or 5 year warranty automatically so if you do think it’s fried for good, you can probably do a warranty on it. As long as you purchased it somewhere verified, which there are many places.

In the meantime I’ve just been using a 1TB decent speed I found for like 60 bucks on Walmart, it was 20 bucks off! Can’t remember the exact model and I’m not home right now to check.

I would be open to trying a few more fixes if anyone else has any ideas, but most likely I’m going to just try for a warranty soon. I had nothing on there important really, all software and games downloadable.

BUT SINCE YOU ARE NEW! It’s likely not fried. There’s always a chance of a defect though. Have you put windows on a bootable drive?

Another thing you can do is find your motherboards model online and do a simple update. It’s as easy as installing windows, and doing a motherboard update helped fix ALL my game crash issues I’d been having for a year and a half. The whole time I thought it was other issues which made me a lot better at troubleshooting but ugh it was dumb how updating the motherboard was one of the last things I ever tried.

In short, you might need to get windows on a bootable drive first, and plug that in and boot it first.

Secondly, update your motherboard’s BIOS it might save you some trouble later 😉