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SATA SSD not detect in BIOS, stuck on loading in computer management, but shows up in Acronis

Brand 1TB: FIKWOT Solid State Drive - This one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B4J9HHW6 I have this SSD SATA drive below. I plugged it into my computer and the bios doesn't detect it. But when I ...
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ddrescue second run, running time: n/a

I am running ddrescue to rescue a Windows 10 drive to a new SSD from a gparted media drive. I ran it successfully the first time with: sudo ddrescue -f -d -n /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /path/to/map.log. I ...
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Recover files from failed raid 0

I have a client whose laptop (Asus GX502) stopped working, and as I fix the laptop he wants his data from his drives, but problem is that when I connected the nvme SSDs (512 GB each) to my test ...
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MacBook Air (2012) Toshiba SSD enclosure / connector

Recently, my A1466 MacBook Air (2012) suffered some water damage. Since then, it can’t boot up anymore. I pulled the hard drive with the hope of transferring the files to either an external hard drive ...
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Corrupted portable SSD, wrong size detected, what to do?

I have a 240 GB portable SSD from Transcend. ESD230C Portable SSD Model: TS240GESD230C SN: F43849-0038 Recently there have been long delays in reading data. During another such long delay, I ...
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How might I transfer cookies and passwords from a broken laptop drive to a new laptop's browser?

My old laptop recently broke (in a way that can't be repaired). I salvaged the SSD card and turned it into an external drive so that I can get my old data off of it. I mainly need all the data from my ...
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Chrome: recovering Chrome autofill data from a corrupt ex-Win10 PC

Can one run Chrome with a named profile from command line off a USB rescue media with W10, to rescue Chrome data from a corrupt SSD? Before you say that it's a ridiculous idea, please hear me out. I ...
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How to access data on an external ssd drive with MBR only?

My old laptop's display died, so I took its SSD and connected it to another laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 externally via USB using M2 SSD case. There should be two operating systems: Windows and Ubuntu on ...
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Can I recover accidently deleted files on an SSD External Drive running Windows 10 Home?

I accidently deleted files from a WD external SSD hard drive. Running OS is Windows 10. I have scanned the drive with two separate on-line file recovery (Stellar & Recoverit) packages and both ...
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Check that every file is successfully readable on a volume

For the first time since many years, I have a disk (SSD that shows 99% health with DiskInfo!) that has a few unreadable files. I tried to open these files with wxHexEditor, and when scrolling in the ...
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HDD produces grinding noise even when I am using only SSD

Starting Situation: I have a 1 TB HDD with Windows 11 that was too slow and produced noises and vibrations. So, I added a new SSD to my laptop and installed another Windows 11, but even when I use the ...
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ext4 disk modified by windows 10 and now lost all files on that drive [duplicate]

I had a 250GB SATA SSD and 500GB SATA SSD. I first used Ubuntu OS installed on the 250GB SSD and used the 500GB SSD to store my other files. Then I decided to dual boot Windows 10 to use Office ...
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Is there a tool to get as much data from partly damaged SSD as possible? [duplicate]

I have an SSD, Samsung Evo, 1TB, supposedly not the worst, that was not used in obviously damaging manner and CrystalDiskInfo showed supposedly 99% lifetime. Still, there are uncopyable files - if the ...
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How can I tell if my SSD is really secure erased, with a huge $BadClus file on it?

Backstory: almost a year ago, I bought a Silicon Power Ace A56 256GB SATA SP256GBSS3A56B25. After 4 months, it suddenly went into Satafirm S11 mode, which meant I couldn't boot a system from it, ...
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Force-reboot a windows machine that can't be restarted normally

The machine in question is an intel-based windows laptop with a defective SSD that works for the most part but accessing specific addresses causes it to not respond any more until the whole machine ...
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