[SOLVED] 1TB SSD is showing only 2GB capacity ?

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sarthak7869

sarthak7869

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I have had this NVMe ssd for a year and suddenly it disappeared from my file explorer.
Upon checking in Disk Management it is shown as having only 2GB and Not Initialized and nothing happens after i click on initialize. I have tried leaving my computer in BIOS for it to repair itself but no luck.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on. please help me.
 

XPG ADATA GAMMIX S70 Blade M.2 NVME 1TB PCIe Gen4x4 2280 Internal Solid State Drive/SSD, Read/Write Speed Up to 7,400/6800 MB/s - (AGAMMIXS70B-1T-CS)​


this is the ssd
 
sarthak7869 said:
So i bought a product whose whole production is defective and all my data is gone? idc about the ssd is there anyway to recover the data?
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What data is it? How important exactly?

This is why the recommendation to do proper backups gets so relentlessly pushed here.

You could try recovering it yourself, but everything you do has the chance of making it 100% unrecoverable.

Or you send it off to a data recovery company who might be able to retrieve it (especially if this is a regular type of failure) but if by some small chance they can the cost can be significant.

Like I say, it depends how important this is. Because it might be that there's a small chance it can be recovered by a data company right now, but if you try doing it yourself first you could drop that chance to zero.
 
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sarthak7869 said:
I couldn't understand the whole process but is he telling me to short circuit the ssd so that it comes out of ROM mode?
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IIUC, you short those test points with tweezers, power on the drive, then release the short. The drive should then be in ROM mode. At this point you power cycle the drive and it should be back in operation. I don't understand why this works, if indeed it does.
 
i am not gonna short anything, will have to owe up to my mistake of buying from this * company and not keeping a backup, will send it for data recovery. thank you everyone, you guys are the best.
 
Moonstick2 said:
What data is it? How important exactly?

This is why the recommendation to do proper backups gets so relentlessly pushed here.

You could try recovering it yourself, but everything you do has the chance of making it 100% unrecoverable.

Or you send it off to a data recovery company who might be able to retrieve it (especially if this is a regular type of failure) but if by some small chance they can the cost can be significant.

Like I say, it depends how important this is. Because it might be that there's a small chance it can be recovered by a data company right now, but if you try doing it yourself first you could drop that chance to zero.
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yes will send it for recovery only, the data is of my clients cant afford to lose that.
 
sarthak7869 said:
i am not gonna short anything, will have to owe up to my mistake of buying from this * company and not keeping a backup, will send it for data recovery. thank you everyone, you guys are the best.
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I'd blame the company far less than you not keeping a backup. ADATA has been around a long time and made SSDs for a long time. They're not one of the randomly-named [Moderator edit to remove unnecessary racial reference.] brands that appear and disappear every day. Even big name brands have drives that fail with no warning, and might not even be as functional as this one is right now.
 
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I can't believe that in 2025 some people still don't back up their important data. This is unthinkable to me. Any drive can fail, even the top-of-the-line enterprise grade drives. I have images and file backups of my computer on several drives. At work we have two backups of our important data (hundreds of TB) and one is off-site to make sure that even if the whole building collapses we still have a copy. But the good thing is that you won't make the same mistake again, hopefully.
 
The only reason the majority of people who have any kind of backup have it is because they use Windows 10 or 11 with a Microsoft Account so they're syncing to OneDrive, or now possibly have accidentally enabled the "Windows Backup" app, but most of them also aren't actually aware that they have such backups or understand how they work. Backups have never and will never be something that the mass of consumers will know or care about, and the companies like Samsung, Google, Microsoft and Apple will only make such a feature integrated and automatic to the minimum level possible and make it tie you to their services as much as possible. (Of course most full backup apps tie you to their image file type, too, but at least it's not integrated into the OS and other services.) Apple does at least make Time Machine really simple. Even people using Google accounts with their Android phones manage to somehow not enable backups, or don't remember passwords so they can't recover it anyway.

Technically-savvy and business IT people of course have little excuse EXCEPT for the fact that very often users will jump through hoops to avoid properly using filesystems and network storage for their data, resulting in their own computer being the only machine with a copy of critical data, unknown to the IT staff who carefully set up servers and file shares and multiple backup functionality. And the ones that use the Trash/Deleted Items /Recycle Bin folders as their "I really need to make sure I keep these files" storage location. But in a small business that is just running a bunch of PCs and doesn't really have IT, just one niche application they run on several computers, you basically have to look at that as nothing more than consumer PCs, and sometimes even when they hire IT they won't let IT do the right thing because it costs money.
 
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