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Help resurrecting a dead SSD (self.techsupport)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by ShaggyBlarney to c/[email protected]

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Two days ago, my SSD stopped showing up on my computer (it doesn't show up in file explorer, disk mgt., device mgt., bios). There was little warning of drive failure; i was downloading a new game to it that morning (had to restart a failed download twice, but the third time succeeded). It's been humming along without issue for a couple of years now. There are some personal projects, photos, maybe game saves i'd like to retrieve if possible. Any ideas or tips would be helpful?

So far i've tried:

restarting
scanning with device mgr, disk mgr, in the bios
power cycling the drive with the sata unplugged
switching the sata cable to another port (no show)
switching out the drive for a blank drive(no show as well)

next steps are to try cloning the drive with a 2 bay docking station

spec info:

drive: 1 TB western digital SA510, working as the secondary drive.
OS: Windows 10

Edit: thanks for the advice. It looks like this is out of my range of abilities to recover so I'm looking to a professional service now. Let me know of a good data recovery service in the greater Vancouver area of you know of one.

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[–] ShaggyBlarney 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ya, i'm coming to the conclusion that it's beyond me and needs professional help. Tried the external enclosure and got nothing as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, sorry, it sounds like something in the interface or read/write control on the SSD has died. It could be something as simple as a capacitor, or it could be a controller chip. The data is probably still present in the actual storage, but I'm not sure how you would get to it without doing a lot of testing and then desoldering/resoldering components.

I do know a potentially better place to ask for advice if you want to dig into it more - the forum at grc.com:

https://forums.grc.com/

Steve Gibson produces SpinRite, which is a hard drive test & repair application (probably the best out there) and there's a lot of drive-related discussion on the forum and several other members with expertise. Someone there might have a better idea of what kind of recovery options are possible.