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Here is an article which discusses the problem of heat and SSDs. It also has some solutions.

Did GParted see it?

Probably a hardware fault with the reader. As a last ditch attempt, shine a torch into the SD card slot. You never know something like a staple stuck inside could be causing it short out. Failing that, just use a USB reader.

What fzabkar said is correct - sometimes raw recovery or file carving is the only option. While these "partition recovery" tools sound very promising - most of them don't actually recover your partition because the metadata is deleted.

Power off system. Remove the disk from the system. Re-seat the disk. Power up system and re-try.

Interesting, do you know which ones?

I know!

Most SSDs should in the BIOS appear without any OS installed? :cautious:

Most m.2 SSDs now are NVMe anyway!

Some excellent advice here re: using Asmedia or Realtek. But which USB enclosure brands use these chipsets? (From my experience, most adaptors seem to use JMicron)

yes, I've seen this happen before. do you know why this happens and how do you clear the pw?

I know it's just for reference but SMART cannot totally relied upon. There are other issues than can affect disks that are never picked up by SMART. People who've studied disk failures at scale will say to you that it's not the errors per se reported by SMART you need to worry about but the...

thanks - very interesting Fzabkar.

Hi Fzabkar, what are "serpentine segments"? and second what selective head imaging always a feature of HDDSC?

As others have pointed out this is most likely a sector size issue. However, also bear in mind that different onboard chipsets in hdd docks can sometimes vary results in terms of disk access. I try to use hdddocks which use Asmedia chipsets as opposed to JMicron.