No, your SSD isn't completely dead. It may still have some functionality left.
No, your SSD isn't completely dead. It may still have some functionality left.
It might be a bios environment that requires adjustment because you've installed a new motherboard. What SATA mode is configured? Should AHCI attempt to switch to IDE, or vice versa? You could also test disabling fast boot to see if it improves performance. Additionally, try connecting the drive to various SATA ports—perhaps it was mistakenly connected to one shared with the M.2 device.
You've tested multiple SATA ports and enabled hotplugging after booting Windows. The SATA settings in your MOBO remain grayed out, indicating an issue that needs investigation before changing configurations. After restarting and plugging in the new port, the drive appears in Explorer but the system freezes when you right-click it. It now shows a blank screen in Task Manager, which is unusual.
UPDATE: Okay, just disabled Fast Boot (and enabled XMP because I never turned that on). Rebooting took about 25 minutes, during which it was blank almost the whole. About 10 minutes in it displayed Scanning and repairing Drive F: 100% complete (for about 10 minutes), then it showed Scanning and repairing Drive G: 100% complete (for about 10 minutes), then it showed Scanning and repairing drive (\\?\Volume{8721f2a6-0000-0000-0060-c04f74000000}): 100% Complete (for the remaining time before booting into Windows.) Now that Windows is started, it does not show my SSD in Windows Explorer whatsoever. HOWEVER, I have opened Disk Management and it said I must initialize a disk before I can partition it. Clicked okay, and it errored and said "there was an I/O error" Now it's showing another disk in Disk Management, "disk 0", and says it's 257 GB unallocated and that the disk is not initialized. Reminder: it's a 500 GB drive and just over 400GB of it is used. I need to find a way to scan that disk again so it sees what's on it and can save it. Things are even more interesting now, because my "big HDD" that's 6TB... It shows that it has 353 unallocated space (this is not the case) So somehow Disk Management might think that my SSD is half on my HDD as a separate partition, and the other half is on the SSD and cannot be used???????
Do you have another computer to test the SSD? Maybe you could bring it with you to a friend for a trial. If it functions there, you can transfer the data elsewhere. Have you performed a fresh Windows installation after replacing the motherboard? Is it possible to view the SSD’s SMART status? You can check it using CrystalDiskInfo.
I didn’t perform a clean install because it makes me nervous. Each time I try, I lose many programs I can’t locate again. I don’t have another computer to try the drive on. The CrystalDisk tool only sees my boot drive and the D drive…
Start by creating a bootable USB stick using any available tool. Next, obtain a Linux ISO file and transfer it onto the flash drive. After turning it on, press the designated key(s) to select your preferred boot option and choose the correct drive. Alternatively, you can enter BIOS settings, adjust the boot sequence, and place the stick at the top before restarting.