Timeline for How to recover files from a dead SSD?
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| Dec 25, 2022 at 19:27 | comment | added | music2myear | Does this answer your question? How do I recover lost/inaccessible data from my storage device? | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 19:27 | comment | added | music2myear | If you absolutely must try something yourself, first, know this DECREASES your chance of recovering usable data, and second, there are many, many posts here already with specific instructions regarding this: superuser.com/search?q=Recover+data | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 19:24 | comment | added | music2myear | Whatever the reason or cause of the specific issue, the process is the same: your best chance of recovering ANYTHING is to take it to a competent recovery service who will use specialized hardware and software to attempt to recover the disk's contents. It may not be what you want to do, but it is the best thing to do. | |
| Dec 25, 2022 at 6:36 | review | Close votes | |||
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| S Dec 25, 2022 at 6:32 | history | bounty ended | gronostaj | ||
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| Dec 23, 2022 at 15:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/1606303633657798656 | ||
| S Dec 23, 2022 at 8:01 | history | bounty started | gronostaj | ||
| S Dec 23, 2022 at 8:01 | history | notice added | gronostaj | Reward existing answer | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 19:24 | vote | accept | Nathan | ||
| Dec 21, 2022 at 15:48 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 21, 2022 at 15:26 | history | edited | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2022 at 13:24 | answer | added | Joep van Steen | timeline score: 18 | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 5:12 | comment | added | Nathan | @DrMoishePippik the laptop was physically impacted at the point directly over the HDD, which apparently (according to the repair people) said shattered a disk. Also as I said, initially the laptop was able to boot into the OS and access files, but then later wasn't able to. I have no idea why, but I agree it is more logical for the two to be connected somehow than coincidentally failing at the same time | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 4:23 | comment | added | DrMoishe Pippik | You write, "Recently, the HDD was destroyed." What destroyed it? Nearby lightning strike? Power supply issues? Flood? That same event might have damaged the SSD -- beyond repair. The less you use it, the more likely a commercial data recovery lab could salvage something, though it might not come cheaply. | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 23:39 | comment | added | anon | I cannot say about any individual drive. Mean time to failure also plays a part. You would need to contact Dell Support and ask them. | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 23:27 | comment | added | Nathan | @John but you are suggesting the disk reached the end of its life within days of the other disk being destroyed, that is a very improbable coincidence. I added the model information in the question so you can verify its specifications | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 23:24 | history | edited | Nathan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 20, 2022 at 23:07 | comment | added | anon | It depends on what Dell specified. The SSD in my Lenovo laptops are specified for 600 TBW (1 TB drives) and they have a generous number of cells to take over from dead cell. One drive in the older laptop is just over 6 years old | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 22:36 | comment | added | Nathan | @Ramhound it isn't old at all, barely 18 months. Every resource online I find indicates how difficult it is to completely lose data on a drive even deliberately, so its hard to fathom how it happens spontaneously or accidentally, unless there is a very specific reason for it. But it is good news that data recovery companies have resources I don't have, although you could be more specific | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 22:21 | comment | added | Ramhound | “What could put an SSD in that state?” - Age; Maximum number of writes, hardware failure. Data recovery companies have more tools than the ones that are accessible to the common individual. Has others have pointed out, data recovery on a SSD, is extremely difficult even if the device is discoverable by common data recovery tools. | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 22:08 | comment | added | anon | SSDs can fail like any drive and there is not much hope of recovery from the cells | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 21:52 | comment | added | Nathan | That doesn't explain anything. What could put an SSD in that state? What could a recovery center do that I haven't tried myself? Why the strange behavior when booting into it? | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 21:44 | comment | added | anon | You probably have no hope of recovery. Take the drive to a local recovery agency to see if there is remote possibility. | |
| S Dec 20, 2022 at 21:40 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Dec 20, 2022 at 21:40 | history | asked | Nathan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |