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As I was tightening down the heat spreader plate over my nvmes and then securing 20lbs of aluminum heatsink and one of the cinderblock-sized GPUs of today over the top the idea of something like this crossed my mind like remembering some scene of any random horror movie. Trying to reseat them would be like trying to service the least serviceable auto.
There are disk checkers I think work for SSDs as well as HDs and will flag bits as unusable.
I'm not sure why SSDs would altogether fail after some point of use. That would be fishy if they all did that. Seems more like as the NAND wears thin you'd lose more and more usable capacity over time.
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This might not be bad news for your drive.
It is possible for some fixed drives to be removed in Windows (I guess to support hot swappable drives). They will then not be visible to Windows, even through reboots.
Is it possible you accidentally removed that drive?
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Quote: Is it possible you accidentally removed that drive?
No. The drive is internal to the machine, plugged directly into the PCI bus using an adapter. It has never been removed in 3 years!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I do a weekly backup of all computers in my home network. The stuff in my development folder is backed up daily. With that setup, I am reasonably certain to lose only less than one day's work.
(Of course, it's always possible that my backup server AND my computer will go south simultaneously...  )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Quote: Of course, it's always possible that my backup server AND my computer will go south simultaneously
Which is why I keep more than one backup!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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When I was actively working, I had 3 computers in my office, with all work automatically copied to all 3. Worked like a champ. When 1 computer glitched, I just moved to another and kept working. Everythin was fine until some hoodlums broke into my office and stole all 3 computers. Fortunately I had just made a complete backup of all 3 on a giant external drive, so life went on once I bought new systemssystems.The worst suffering was to my bank account.
modified 9-Mar-23 12:35pm.
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That's OK ... I replaced a breaker (several times) because I missed the ground fault breaker. Or the keyboard came unplugged. Or the cat jiggled the HDMI cable and the monitor went dead ...
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I am having almost same situation. My system is a little over a year old. Drive C is my NVE SSD drive. Drive D is 2TB HDD sata drive. Your symptoms sound very much like mine and I did the same preventative steps. Even though D is currently working, I ordered a replacement for it (not expensive). I'll swap it out and use the old drive as second backup (I had sata USB connector to allow it become an external drive). My experience is that once a drive starts acting up do something quick.
Hopefully it's just the drive and not some controller issue. BTW I use HDDScan to give me drive temperature readings (not sure how accurate but that drive sometimes runs hot 40+C)
Anyway, good luck.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Thanks! But it is a Samsung drive and I ran Samsung Magician software to check it out. It found nothing wrong, but still I don't trust it! 
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Mine is Seagate. I have had good luck with this brand, but I still don't trust this drive either.
Just got my replacement 5 mins ago.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Get something that can read the smart data like CrystalDiskInfo and check the health of the SSD. SSDs have a limited number of write cycles and are often rated in TBW - Terabytes Written.
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Good point! It was 3 years old and had been used extensively on a daily basis. It may be suffering from old age! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cp-Coder wrote: As a last resort I restored the system drive to a Macrium image taken just yesterday, with little hope that that will recover access to the D drive. But it worked! Now my D drive is visible again!
So, something changed on the system drive that lead the OS to think there was no D: drive, and restoring the backup of the system drive brought that back...?
Maybe the dying drive is NOT your D: drive at all...
I can't help but wonder whether--while your system was in that state--the BIOS was seeing your secondary drive at all. Probably can't determine that now...
Either way...yeah, back up religiously. Someone mentioned a RAID configuration...I never miss an opportunity to point out that RAID isn't a backup solution. I've had a RAID controller give up - no fun (all drives individually were fine). Given the extra hassle of setting up RAIDs - while I liked the idea (at first) I stopped playing with the technology, have gone single-drive and never looked back.
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Since I've founded JUUN Software back in 2018 I've had my mail with my domain name provider.
Had it in Outlook using IMAP.
All works well, but I can't sync contacts or my calendar to my phone, which is annoying to say the least.
Especially since I had to add a customer's account to my Outlook which is on Exchange and Outlook is now somehow rerouting all my appointments through that account.
So I got Microsoft 365 Business last year and I'm finally getting to switching to Exchange.
So I changed my DNS to look for Exchange, removed my IMAP account from Outlook and added Exchange.
All works well, but... All my mails have gone.
Turns out I have to move those manually.
So I'm now setting up IMAP again, syncing all the mails I just removed back to Outlook, moving them to another account, setting up Exchange again en moving them back to Exchange.
I remember having these same problems back in 2014 when I switched my edgy teenager mail account to a more mature account.
You'd think this could be easier in 2023 
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If you want to play with the big boys, you have to use the big boy's tools.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: you have to use the big boy's tools.
Option #1) or the lack of them
Option #2) You said big boys' tools, but it doesn't mean, that they have to work right or make any kind of logic.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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There are some tools (big boy or not) I'll never have in my company.
SAP and Oracle come to mind 
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You are my kind of guy.
ed
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Sander Rossel wrote: I'll never have in my company
More relevant - Crystal Reports!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Too late for that 
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If you have a Samsung, Samsung Smart Switch allows you to sync your Outlook contacts. (That or Side sync, but I think it was Smart Switch.) I believe it also updates your calendar, but I'm not sure.
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Got it all working now with Exchange
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This may be considered heresy here at CP but...
It seems like many (most? all?) developers have an obsession with keeping (forever?) every email that has ever passed through their inbox. As far as I'm concerned, 93.4% of emails I send or receive have a shelf-life of about a week... the remaining 6.6% can be evenly divided into those with a shelf-life less than a week and those with a shelf-life greater than a week. It's an extremely rare day that I need to search my archives for an old email.
I find it humorous that something we find so vitally important will become absolutely worthless the moment we retire (or die).
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Yes, that is heresy.
I've had to find an old email on multiple occasions, if only to tell a customer "yes, I did remind you/mention it/whatever, see email at [date from months ago]."
It costs me nothing to keep my mails from years ago, yet if I ever get into a dispute with a customer and I don't have relevant proof of my right (which could just as well be an email) it could cost me a lot of money.
In fact, I nearly got into such a dispute.
A customer wouldn't pay because I didn't finish their software.
Luckily, I could show them a nice long email history with all the times I reminded or asked my customer about something and never did I get an answer.
Ultimately, they paid almost everything.
Imagine how a few emails saved me about 15K.
In other occasions I was just happy to find an old email because it explained something I forgot about.
fgs1963 wrote: I find it humorous that something we find so vitally important will become absolutely worthless the moment we retire (or die).
That's true for many things.
In fact, my parents already joke about all the "junk" they collect, like books, saying they'll keep it so I can throw it out once they're gone (which will hopefully be no sooner than about 30 years or so).
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I archive the emails I am sure that I will need. The rest go about once a quarter. If I haven't needed them by then, I never will. this has not caused me any problem.
ed
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