SSD unrecognized - disk management says "unknown" and "not initialized

My PC wouldn't boot off the SSD (with Win 10 OS). It said there were boot problems and tried to diagnose the problem but it doesn't boot. I'm now using the original HD with Win 7. I'd like to get the SSD working if I can. The SSD is OCZ - 240 GB or so.

But between last night and today, the SSD has gotten worse. I can't access it at all now. Last night I was able to access it as an external drive. What I did in between was a chkdsk of the HD just to make sure it was OK. Then this morning I saw that the SSD had problems.

Disk Management shows the SSD as disk 1, but it has no information on it. It just says the disk is unknown and uninitialized.

I saw a recommendation for Partition Wizard 9.1 Free. But that doesn't show the drive at all. I attached screen shots as a Word document.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the hint, Jack. I'm attaching the 2 images - disk management and partition wizard.

I wish you speedy and full recovery from your surgery, Jack. Yeah, the drugs can affect you, but it was also some of the most relaxing times for me in the couple of operations I had :)

I didn't initialize disk 1 (in disk management picture). Well not that I know, anyhow, and I never saw any messages saying it was being initialized or was initialized. I could access it last night, but not this morning. And the only thing I did was chkdsk on drive 0. I tried to do chkdsk on drive 1 (the SSD) to see if whatever errors that kept it from booting could be fixed, but I didn't know how to do that. Then this morning I found that drive 1 (the SSD) was not accessible.

So, yes, disk 1 had an OS on it and data.

What I'd really like is to have the SSD working as much as it was yesterday so I can use it as the boot drive.

And if I can't do that, I'd like to save the data from the SSD.

Yes, I'd like to save all of Disk 0. That is my "backup" so I can use it for times like this.

I'd like to recover Disk 1 so I can use it again.

I would say that your disk has failed.
Ask Jumanji for help. He is the disk guru. https://www.sevenforums.com/members/jumanji.html

Thanks, Megahertz, I will ask Jumanji for help.

If I can fix the problems (corrupted data? bad sectors?) on Disk 1 so I can use it as a boot drive again (hopefully with all files intact), that would be ideal. That's why I was trying to see if i could run chkdsk on drive 1 - I saw it had an option to fix errors.

If I can't do that, then there are some files that I'd like to recover (my wife's latest update to her Christmas address).

Then I'd like to recover the drive so i can use it again - and I know this will most likely get rid of everything on the drive.