Question Motherboard A2 error - caused by SSD with OS on it - any way to recover the data?

[martij7au]

I came back from a week vacation to boot up my computer, but it would hang on the BIOS splash screen, and I could not input any commands to enter BIOS or anything. The motherboard code was A2. Tried a lot of things which didn't work, but ultimately when I unplugged power and SATA cable from my boot drive SSD, it worked no problem, except of course, no OS, since it was on the failed drive.

I reinstalled Windows on another functioning drive, but since I can't get past the BIOS when the failed drive is connected, I'm not sure how I could possibly get any data off this drive.

Anyone have any methods that might work to recover the data, or get the drive to work, or figure out what happened to the drive?

Thanks.

 

[USAFRet]

Im using macrium for backups, and I bought a 4TB hard drive - will let me store a few backups on it. That should be a good start anyway.

You've delved into Incremental images?

4TB drive can hold a full Image of 2.5-3TB, and a rolling 30 days of Incrementals.

MR is my tool of choice.

 

[martij7au]

You've delved into Incremental images?

4TB drive can hold a full Image of 2.5-3TB, and a rolling 30 days of Incrementals.

MR is my tool of choice.

I've only just started, working on setting up my schedule with incrementals - based on your previous post. I'm using the free 30 days on MR right now, but will assuredly buy it, since it seems to work very well so far.

 

[USAFRet]

I've only just started, working on setting up my schedule with incrementals - based on your previous post. I'm using the free 30 days on MR right now, but will assuredly buy it, since it seems to work very well so far.

For me, MR is one of those applications that 'just works'.
And worth paying for.

I have the paid version on my main system, grandfathered free on all the others.

What is your backup situation at home?

What is your backup situation at home? And if you don't do that, why not? Every single day, I read multiple threads here of "How do I get my stuff back?" or "That drive had 5 years of photos of my kids!!" Be it a dead drive, dropped phone, virus, accidental deletion, formatting the wrong...

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