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Problem description: I got home from vacation and my computer wouldn't boot. After some amount of troubleshooting I found that the bios wasn't finding my boot drive. On further troubleshooting, that drive, an SSD, will not register with anything anywhere on other machines, so I'm pretty sure that the SSD is broken. It's broken at the level of "I can plug it in but nothing recognizes it". Attempted fixes: Everything I've done has been to figure out that this is the problem. I have no idea how to start fixing an SSD that won't show up. Recent changes: Nothing about the hardware or system software of the computer has been changed in 2.5 years. -- System specs: SSD in question is a Samsung EVO 840, 250 GB, and it's 2.5 years old. Model MZ - 7TE250. There are a lot of other numbers, I'm not sure any are relevant. Location: USA I have Googled and read the FAQ: Yes Basically, I've got some data on this drive that I'd like to have back but isn't super critical. Mostly some photos and this year's tax forms (I usually do backups but have gotten lazy). Is there any reasonable thing I can try to recover this data or is it basically gone for good?
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May 30, 2017 14:10
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TBH - any such recovery effort is going to set you back a significant amount of money. I know some places can take a donor drive (same model...etc) and transfer the relevant data-holding parts to that drive to try to recover the data. I know on mechanical HDDs that usually means transplanting the donor's heads and PCB (circuit board) into the bad drive without having to move the actual platters (because doing so is bad and would mean realigning them). For an SSD - its likely possible recovery could be done the same way, but would surely involve soldering to remove/reattach the various circuits and whatnot... and that's praying the memory-holding parts dont get damaged in the process... Seriously - call it dead, destroy it and move on. I doubt you are going to fork out $1400+ for the parts and labor to take/mail it to a specialist that can do the surgery let alone one that has a proper clean room environment (and won't steal your personal data too)... P.S.A - Get a backup drive you can automate and clone. Normally I'd say cloud storage is OK, but not for personal information like tax records...for that stuff you definitely want a hardcopy anyway. Slayerjerman fucked around with this message at 07:43 on May 31, 2017 |
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May 31, 2017 07:41
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Alright, no surprises there, I guess that figures. Thanks for the info. Of course an automated backup system was on my to-do list and has been for months (even with them being basically plug and play nowadays) but I guess now's a good time for it with the new drive.
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Jun 2, 2017 22:38
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Slayerjerman posted:...let alone one that has a proper clean room environment Not that an SSD has any moving parts you need a clean room for. And having said that, you don't need a clean room full stop. Get a laminar flow workbench and call it a day. My data recovery course was done in a classroom with carpets etc and a lot of people got 100% recovery after stripping drives down to the bare chassis, switching out heads and/or platters and rebuilding them. I, on the other hand, was poo poo at it and barely managed to get 2 out 7 working again. It requires patience and a steady hand, and I'm too old for either of those things. 
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