Question Configuring a RAW Nvme SSD

[kyle_michiels]

Hey guys,

Recently my laptop's main boot drive crashed which is an Nvme SSD.
I didn't knew what exactly went wrong and wanted to see if I can still retrieve data from this ssd.

However I have an older Msi mainboard (b85-g43) which doesn't have an nvme port. So I bought a cheap Pci card for an nvme drive.
(Adapter)

The drive does show in device manager and in disk manager however it is configured as RAW.

I tried to retrieve the data so far by using EaseUS Data Recovery but no luck so far.

However when I reinsterted the adapter it asked me to initialize the drive. Either in MBR or GPT mode, sadly none of these work.
MBR gives a windows error message:

Invalid Function

And GPT tells me that the drive is too small. It's an 128GB ssd.
At this point I just would like to format the drive but since I can't initiliaze the drive this is not possible.

Any help would be greatly apprciated either with retrieving data or formatting drive.

Greetings,

Kyle

 

[CountMike]

Did you try with EaseUS Partition Master ? Need to delete all the partitions first.

 

[kyle_michiels]

Did you try with EaseUS Partition Master ? Need to delete all the partitions first.

Can I delete partitions without initializing the drive?

 

[failboat]

For data recovery it's best to clone the drive. Do not do anything until you do that.
Then you can start trying to recover files.

There are many linux live boot isos you can put on usb for recovery.

 

[failboat]

You can use a raw disk with the windows installation. it will format/partition it for you. create a windows install on a usb from your working computer.