Question Drive not being picked up fully after trying it in an adapter, is it cooked?

[NoofenNN]

Bought a new NVME SSD to replace my M.2 SATA SSD, my MOBO only has one M.2 slot so I bought an M.2 to SATA adapter to use both simultaneously. Motherboard could see my new NVME drive just fine, but the SATA port where my adapter+old SSD were plugged in read as empty. Took the old SSD out and plugged it back into the M.2 slot, MOBO sees it but doesn't report it as a WD Blue (simply calls it a SanDisk SSD G5 BICS4, though it knows it's 1TB) and won't let me boot from it. Anyone know what's going on here? This was my only drive in this PC previously so I'd like to find a fix for this ASAP

 

[Lutfij]

Make and model of your motherboard? BIOS version for said motherboard? SanDisk was acquired by Western Digital btw. Might want to include the make and model of the adapter that you'd used as well.

 

[NoofenNN]

Motherboard is an MSI B450 GAMING PLUS MAX (MS-7B86). BIOS version E7B86AMS.HG0, with build date 07/26/2022. Adapter is a Sabrent EC-M2SA

 

[fzabkar]

It appears that your SATA SSD has a firmware fault, probably due to bad NAND. It is now powering up in safe mode and identifying itself with its factory alias.

Can you retrieve a SMART report?

https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecoverysoftware/wiki/index/smart/

 

[NoofenNN]

It appears that your SATA SSD has a firmware fault, probably due to bad NAND. It is now powering up in safe mode and identifying itself with its factory alias.

Can you retrieve a SMART report?

https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecoverysoftware/wiki/index/smart/

I probably can't get a SMART report on short notice, I don't have another computer I could easily plug the drive into. Will possible fixes depend on the info in the report? It would suck to lose the data on the drive.

Thank you for the help, means a lot.

 

[USAFRet]

It would suck to lose the data on the drive.

For future reference, this is exactly what backups are for.

Things happen.

 

[fzabkar]

I probably can't get a SMART report on short notice, I don't have another computer I could easily plug the drive into. Will possible fixes depend on the info in the report?

A SMART report comes from a particular firmware module. If the firmware is bricked, then you won't have access to the SMART data.

I may have been wrong about the factory alias. It seems that "SanDisk SSD G5 BICS4" is a genuine ID for a working drive:

https://smarthdd.com/database/SanDisk-SSD-G5-BICS4/415000WD/

It's a very strange ID, though. "BICS4" refers to the NAND architecture. "SanDisk Milpitas" is the most common factory alias.

 

[NoofenNN]

For future reference, this is exactly what backups are for.

Things happen.

If anyone is reading into the future, yeah. I have backups for 90% of the important stuff on there, but even losing 10% would be a whole thing

 

[NoofenNN]

A SMART report comes from a particular firmware module. If the firmware is bricked, then you won't have access to the SMART data.

I may have been wrong about the factory alias. It seems that "SanDisk SSD G5 BICS4" is a genuine ID for a working drive:

https://smarthdd.com/database/SanDisk-SSD-G5-BICS4/415000WD/

It's a very strange ID, though. "BICS4" refers to the NAND architecture. "SanDisk Milpitas" is the most common factory alias.

I'll have windows installed on the new drive tomorrow and see if I can get the adapter working to get data on the drive.