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Help resurrecting a dead SSD (self.techsupport)
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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Gilware in Wisconsin will look at it for free or cheap. That's where I send hard drives that I can't recover on my own. If they can recover the data on it, it will cost you at least $1,000.