Question How would I go about recovering data on SSD?

[Zarconian]

Hello,

I am having issues with my SSD not allowing my system to boot from it. I shut everything down as normal, then the following day I start up my PC and it says that it is recovering my D: drive for some reason. It got stuck at 99% and never finished for about 2 hours. I went ahead and power cycled it and now it doesn't show up on my boot options in my bios. It does however show up as a drive when I used a new m.2 SSD with windows installed. It is not allowing me to copy my stuff over and I don't really know what to do. What are peoples thoughts?

Components:

Samsung 840 pro 128 GB (Faulty boot drive) C: Drive
Seagate Barracuda 500 GB 7200 RPM D: Drive
Samsung 860 EVO 1TB E: Drive
Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe M.2 Newest Drive Temp C: Drive
Intel I-9 9900K
Nvidia GTX 2080 Super
G.Skill Tridentz 4x8GB DDR4 3200
Asus ROG Strix Z390-E motherboard
Corsair H100i Platinum

 

[PC Tailor]

It is not allowing me to copy my stuff over and I don't really know what to do.

Unfortunately, if the drive is damaged / faulty, the only way to recover data from it is to restore it from a previous backup, or take it to a professional recovert service, which is incredibly expensive as it is a specialist trade. This is why backups are so important.

The people who do $50 recovery aren't really doing anything other than plugging in a bit of software to hopefully recover files you're looking at, but this is only possible when the drive is accessible.

Are you able to try the drive in another system? Or boot into a bootable USB Linux for example and see if you can access the drive?

 

[Zarconian]

I haven't done that as I am not very familiar with Linux. I assume there is a tutorial on that somewhere? If I don't get that to work I have some people who do server recovery stuff, I will see if they can pull from the drive. I just got a back up drive so that this won't happen in the future.

 

[PC Tailor]

I haven't done that as I am not very familiar with Linux. I assume there is a tutorial on that somewhere? If I don't get that to work I have some people who do server recovery stuff, I will see if they can pull from the drive. I just got a back up drive so that this won't happen in the future.

Most "recovery" are not professionals and are just hoping the drive is still accessible for the software to work. Proper recovery is nothing like this.

If they do specialise in actual data recovery, fair enough. But again, it's very labour intensive and it's specialised work for individual failures of drives, if they are these kind of specialists and do it for free, introduce me! as usually it costs hundreds to thousands.

Linux is just a bootable OS, like Windows, it's just you can get it on a USB to boot into so you can see if you can access your drive indirectly through another "OS drive". Here is a site to look at: https://www.pendrivelinux.com/

 

[Zarconian]

Awesome, I will look into both. I could be mistaken on what he does then. I just know that he was able to recover other data from prior dead laptop drives that were dropped. I do have another question for you, would it be worth buying a SATA to USB to try that? I saw that it could be a go around. I don't know legitimate it is though.

 

[PC Tailor]

would it be worth buying a SATA to USB to try that?

Yes, I use a USB docking station personally.

 

[Zarconian]

Update on the PC:

I was able to run a chdsk and it came back as 0 bad sectors.

I bought a cloner/backup dock and when I cloned it, the cloned drive is still messed up. I noticed that there is now a system reserved (E drive that is associated with that messed up SSD. I am able to access some of the files, but it won't let me change the administrative settings so I can access everything. Any thoughts? I assume that I may lose it.

I didn't take it to my friend just because I don't think he does the full data recovery process (sad day).

Thanks for all the help.