Is this SSD a goner?

[x509]

I have an old Corsair Performance Series P128 SSD that I use these days in an external drive case. I use it only once in a while. I just tried to use it, and Windows would not show a regular drive icon in Explorer. Instead there was a simple "Drive H:" where the regular drive icon would be. After a while, something timed out and Windows gave me a weird message about "the parameter is incorrect."

So I tried to work with this drive in MiniTool Partition Wizard. (+1, by the way). MiiniTool sees the drive and the amount of space used in the partition. But it took a long time to delete and then reformat that 128 GB partition. And Windows still won't open that drive.

Last time I used this drive, it worked fine. Do SSD drives go bad even when they are not used? Is there any hope left for this drive, or does it go to the great bit bucket in the sky?

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[Maxx]

Check its SMART status with something like Hard Drive Sentinel. May also have to try it without the enclosure as the enclosure's electronics might be bad.

 

[LazN]

Did you try it via SATA and not through the external case? Could be the case's USB to SATA that is unhappy.

 

[x509]

Did you try it via SATA and not through the external case? Could be the case's USB to SATA that is unhappy.

Guys. False alarm. It was the front panel USB port on my desktop system that was flaky. I plugged the same drive into a USB 3 port on my laptop and it all works just fine!