SSD gone after Windows 10 update

[Cushman89]

Hi,



I decided to download/install windows 10.

The download went fine, my computer reset itself to go through the install.
The windows 10 logo appeared and then... Black!

It did nothing for 1 hour so I had to reset my computer manually.

Now my SSD (which I was installing windows on has gone) I have checked bios and am unable to see it.

So I reinstalled windows 7 on to my back up drive, and am still unable to access it.



Any ideas? Thanks for your time.
Cush

 

[clifford_cooley]

Possibly bad timing, and the drive was going out anyway. I seriously don't see how installing an OS (any OS) will damage hardware of any type.

 

[Daniel Habazin]

i can see it how it could happen, when you install a new os you get a lot of writes on the disk, and if it would already be that the disk is on it's last legs, then it's easy to see that the disk stopps working

 

[clifford_cooley]

i can see it how it could happen, when you install a new os you get a lot of writes on the disk, and if it would already be that the disk is on it's last legs, then it's easy to see that the disk stopps working

Do you know how Bad Sectors effect an HDD? That is the symptoms that would be showing, if that were the case, not a complete drive shutdown.

 

[Daniel Habazin]

Do you know how Bad Sectors effect an HDD? That is the symptoms that would be showing, if that were the case, not a complete drive shutdown.

yes, but do you have a ssd that died because you wrote some data to it, i have...

 

[clifford_cooley]

yes, but do you have a ssd that died because you wrote some data to it, i have...

And if it was an instant complete drive failure, it was not due to data write cycles.

 

[Ian]

If the drive doesn't show up in the bios after a cold boot, that isn't a great sign. What type of SSD was it? It doesn't happen to be a Samsung EVO?

 

[Daniel Habazin]

And if it was an instant complete drive failure, it was not due to data write cycles.

anyway, the drive did crap itself