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

Mar 10, 2025
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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
 
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?
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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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?
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.
 
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.
yes will send it for recovery only, the data is of my clients cant afford to lose that.