Hi, my laptop popped recently. Sounded like a capacitor exploded and some funky smell came out of it. The entire power rail died to the point where nothing works at all anymore. No visible damage on the ssd but what do I know…
So I removed the ssd to recover my data but I can’t seem to read the data. I put it in one of those USB to m2 Amazon adapters and plugged into another computer. Windows won’t recognise it at all. It didn’t show up in the partition manager. Ubuntu’s disk manager is able to see it fully including all of the partitions but it refuses to mount any of them.
Does anyone know how I can access my data?
thank you!!
UPDATE: Another Windows computer sees it. In This PC when you click it it says "the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable". In Disk Manager it recognizes the partitions as Healthy and can see all of the partitions. Is there any recourse here or is it the end of the line for this SSD given the message?
UPDATE_2: I ran a disk check on it using chkdsk /f ..... I then changed the permission to my current computer and now it's saying that the drive has 932GB free of 952GB but I never erased it... and why does it have a Windows OS file structure on there and it's showing no other files... super weird.
So I removed the ssd to recover my data but I can’t seem to read the data. I put it in one of those USB to m2 Amazon adapters and plugged into another computer. Windows won’t recognise it at all. It didn’t show up in the partition manager. Ubuntu’s disk manager is able to see it fully including all of the partitions but it refuses to mount any of them.
Does anyone know how I can access my data?
thank you!!
UPDATE: Another Windows computer sees it. In This PC when you click it it says "the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable". In Disk Manager it recognizes the partitions as Healthy and can see all of the partitions. Is there any recourse here or is it the end of the line for this SSD given the message?
UPDATE_2: I ran a disk check on it using chkdsk /f ..... I then changed the permission to my current computer and now it's saying that the drive has 932GB free of 952GB but I never erased it... and why does it have a Windows OS file structure on there and it's showing no other files... super weird.
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