Corrupt Samsung 850 EVO firmware. What to do?

[Noumenon]

I tried to update my Samsung 850 EVO today and it told me it was going to shut down. So I waited for it to shut down for nearly and hour which was when I thought it was just frozen. I force quit my PC and now when I try to turn it back on, it says "No boot device available".

My BIOS does recognize a Samsung SSD, but it gives me an error when I try to boot from it.

I think I have just corrupted my 850 EVO's firmware. How can I fix this? I can't seem to find any solution so far online. The only solutions I've found were for 850 PRO and older EVO versions.

 

[Reyaz123]

You've either corrupted the drive, I'd say return it from the manufacturer or exchange for a new one since you've probably bought it recently.

Or, the operating system got corrupted on the SSD and it just needs to be reinstalled on there.

 

[Noumenon]

You've either corrupted the drive, I'd say return it from the manufacturer or exchange for a new one since you've probably bought it recently.

Or, the operating system got corrupted on the SSD and it just needs to be reinstalled on there.

So I have no way of gathering my files back or fixing it on my own? ... The OS is fine, it was a corrupted SSD firmware since it was caused by a shutdown during the firmware update.

 

[Reyaz123]

You could try putting it into another computer as a secondary storage drive as a last resort attempt to retrieve those important files, but I'll continue to post here if more ideas come up

A good idea is to call Samsung about it, they may have a defined fix for bricked firmware

 

[Noumenon]

You could try putting it into another computer as a secondary storage drive as a last resort attempt to retrieve those important files, but I'll continue to post here if more ideas come up

A good idea is to call Samsung about it, they may have a defined fix for bricked firmware

So I took out my SSD and tried to only boot from my HDD, which equally failed. Maybe the OS in my HDD isn't recognized, which is why I'm currently installing a fresh windows 8 on a new created partition. But previously my OS was on my SSD. So both the OS's on my HDD and SSD can't be boot it seems like. I'll see what happens after I boot from my HDD and then view my SDD after installing a fresh windows 8.

 

[Reyaz123]

You should leave the SSD out of the system if installing to the HDD already. Sometimes systems get confused and will not boot if both drives have an OS each (excluding 2 partitions on one hard drive)

 

[TyrOd]

There's nothing you can do to recover your data if you brick your SSD during a firmware update. Depending on what kind of fault occurred it is sometimes possible to recover the data by extracting and rebuilding from the individual NAND chips, but in most cases the controller will be in a fault/panic state and as a result decryption the data from the bare chips is difficult to impossible depending on the controllers condition.

If it's possible this kind of SSD recovery runs in the $2000+ range, so if your data isn't very valuable than your best bet is to do a restore to factory settings/secure erase via Samsung's SSD toolset.

Needless to say, SSD's aren't magic. They fail due to electronic/firmware faults just like hard drives, so ALWAYS BACKUP your important data.