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I have an Adata 256GB SSD that just died all of a sudden, PC would not see it in BIOS, and plugging it in externally to other PC’s would not do anything, it wouldn’t even show up in disk management. I ended up taking it apart and reflowing it, and surprisingly, It Worked! Now it shows up in disk management as unallocated, and my GetData Recover My Files software could see and scan it. Unfortunately, it could not find any files on it (I have always used this software for data recovery and have had a fairly high success rate with it). Does anyone have any suggestions for software to recover data from a functioning (I guess) SSD? I appreciate any help. Thanks!
Don’t bother trying it yourself, in fact don’t even power it on. Due to the nature of the SSD, it is almost impossible to do meaningful data recovery especially if you turned it on again. The data may be garbage-collected, the FTL information may be lost, so even if most of the data is still there, it is as good as junk. Send it to professional data recovery shops if you care about the data.
Most professional data recovery software has a demo version, such as: Active @ Boot Disk https://www.boot-disk.com/index.html What it will do is show you if recovery is feasible. * If it is just corruption of the partition table or the like recovery is most likely possible. Or TestDisk v7.2 which is a bit “techie” but it is free and full featured. https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk…
Go to: TheTechMentor.com search for how to recover a crashed hard drive (any hard drive). I have used these methods and the various software many times with great success. It also gives you the tools and knowledge to help your family and friends that have the same problem. Make sure and do not write anything to the drive your trying to recover data from or you will over write the data you are trying to recover. Before you start handling your PC components you might want to invest in an anti static wrist strap and or anti static mat. You don’t want to make things any worse. I have always been able to recover most if not all the data using these methods. Then see TheTechMentor.com/post/35 portable applications every tech needs do yourself a favor and install monitoring software on your computer that will e-mail your phone whenever anything is starting to go wrong with your system. FINALLY GET CLONING SOFTWARE and clone your hard drive to an external hard drive every other month. You can delete the old clones. If something ever goes wrong transfer the latest clone from the external drive to a new hard drive which will be hot swappable with the one in your computer and contain your operating system, partitions, and all your files. You won’t even have to change anything in your bios to recognize it.
