SSD Died? Default boot device missing

Hello, yesterday out of nothing my framework 13 AMD froze and uppon restarting it said: Default boot device missing.
Now this is rather annoying, i tried reconnecting the SSD but without succes.
Is there a known way to fix this problem?

Sounds like your SSD might be toast or on its way out. If you have an external housing you could put it in and test it with another computer that will give you more insight.

You could try booting from a USB drive and see if the SSD shows up like under Ubuntu when booting to the Live option. If it is there then running the vendors full hardware test on the drive should give some more insight if it is failing.

In the last few years if a SSD starts acting strange it doesn’t come up to boot, I just get a new one and do not risk bothering with a maybe it will go out or not. They are just so much more inexpensive than storage was a long time ago.

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