Question My SSD died(?) but Disk Drill makes it work while analyzing it(?)

[david2442]

I need your help to find a permanent solution.

Yesterday while installing a game on my SSD, not the main one, Steam complained that there were write problems. From that moment on the PC started to run very slow. I restarted the computer and since then it takes like 5-10 minutes to start, and every program takes a long time. But if I disconnect the SSD everything works perfectly.

I don't mind losing the data, since it's the SSD for the games, but I wanted to see what I had installed to be able to recover it so I installed Disk Drill among other programs. The SSD is impossible to access, it gives and error. And when I look at the format it says RAW and shows as empty.

Other programs let me recover files, and some even showed me the folder structure. But when I used Disk Drill, the option to analyze to recover files, the SSD opens and the computer works perfectly. I can play any game without any problem.

So even if it seems like the SSD is corrupted, it can be fixed? Disk Drill is doing something that works, that's for sure.

The moment I close it everything goes back to the way it was before. Both the formatting and the slowness of the computer. I stop having access, obviously. The thing is that while analyzing, it becomes read-only, so I can't do anything. I have tried to use TestDisk and chkdsk, but they give me a write error, but honestly I don't know what I'm doing other than what google says.

I tried to remove the read mode while using it (attributes disk clear readonly) and the SSD stops working.

If anyone knows how to fix it I would appreciate it very much.

Edit:
Ok, I made it readonly witout Disk Drill and it works perfect. What is going on?

 

[Lafong]

I need your help to find a permanent solution.

Yesterday while installing a game on my SSD, not the main one, Steam complained that there were write problems. From that moment on the PC started to run very slow. I restarted the computer and since then it takes like 5-10 minutes to start, and every program takes a long time. But if I disconnect the SSD everything works perfectly.

I don't mind losing the data, since it's the SSD for the games, but I wanted to see what I had installed to be able to recover it so I installed Disk Drill among other programs. The SSD is impossible to access, it gives and error. And when I look at the format it says RAW and shows as empty.

Other programs let me recover files, and some even showed me the folder structure. But when I used Disk Drill, the option to analyze to recover files, the SSD opens and the computer works perfectly. I can play any game without any problem.

So even if it seems like the SSD is corrupted, it can be fixed? Disk Drill is doing something that works, that's for sure.

The moment I close it everything goes back to the way it was before. Both the formatting and the slowness of the computer. I stop having access, obviously. The thing is that while analyzing, it becomes read-only, so I can't do anything. I have tried to use TestDisk and chkdsk, but they give me a write error, but honestly I don't know what I'm doing other than what google says.

If anyone knows how to fix it I would appreciate it very much.

"Fix it".

The drive itself may be OK, but suffer from partition or file system issues. A fresh format could solve it all.

Are you trying to "fix it" only out of curiosity since you say you don't mind losing the data?

 

[david2442]

"Fix it".

The drive itself may be OK, but suffer from partition or file system issues. A fresh format could solve it all.

Are you trying to "fix it" only out of curiosity since you say you don't mind losing the data?

I mean, I don't mind losing it, but I would rather not have to.

And I added at the end that setting it to read-only works perfectly.

 

[fzabkar]

Could we see a SMART report? It could be that your SSD (Samsung NVMe?) has become read-only because it has run out of spare sectors.

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

 

[david2442]

Could we see a SMART report? It could be that your SSD (Samsung NVMe?) has become read-only because it has run out of spare sectors.

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

It's a 870 EVO 1T, not NVMe.

I tried crystaldiskinfo, but it doesn't show the SSD. The samsung magician software also doesn't find it. But it does everywhere else like the disk manager or the main folder.

Edit:
I used Speccy and that works fine?

Samsung SSD 870 EVO 1TB (SSD)
Manufacturer    SAMSUNG
Heads    16
Cylinders    121.601
Tracks    31.008.255
Sectors    1.953.520.065
SATA type    SATA-III 6.0Gb/s
Device type    Fixed
Serial Number    S6PUNJ0RB02663P
Firmware Version Number    SVT01B6Q
LBA Size    48-bit LBA
Power On Count    2871 times
Power On Time    1194,6 days
Speed    Not used (SSD Drive)
Features    S.M.A.R.T., NCQ, TRIM, SSD
Max. Transfer Mode    SATA III 6.0Gb/s
Used Transfer Mode    SATA III 6.0Gb/s
Interface    SATA
Capacity    931 GB
Real size    1.000.204.886.016 bytes
RAID Type    None
    S.M.A.R.T
        Status    Good
        Temperature    39 °C
        Temperature Range    OK (less than 50 °C)
            S.M.A.R.T attributes
                    Attribute name    Real value    Current    Worst    Threshold    Raw Value    Status
                05    Reallocated Sectors Count    0    100    100    10    0000000000    Good
                09    Power-On Hours (POH)    1194d 15h    94    94    0    0000006FFF    Good
                0C    Device Power Cycle Count    2.871    97    97    0    0000000B37    Good
                B1    Wear Leveling Count    722    60    60    0    00000002D2    Good
                B3    Used Reserved Block Count (Total)    0    100    100    10    0000000000    Good
                B5    Program Fail Count (Total)    0    100    100    10    0000000000    Good
                B6    Erase Fail Count (Total)    0    100    100    10    0000000000    Good
                B7    Runtime Bad Block (Total)    0    100    100    10    0000000000    Good
                BB    Uncorrectable Error Count    0    100    100    0    0000000000    Good
                BE    Temperature Exceed Count    39    61    36    0    0000000027    Good
                C3    ECC Rate    0    200    200    0    0000000000    Good
                C7    CRC Error Count    0    100    100    0    0000000000    Good
                EB    Power Recovery Count    136    99    99    0    0000000088    Good
                F1    Total LBAs Written    272.584.834.411    99    99    0    0077527D6B    Good
    Partition 0
        Partition ID    Disk #2, Partition #0
        Disk Letter    G:
        File System    NTFS
        Volume Serial Number    2C8A8842
        Size    931 GB
        Used Space    905 GB (97%)
        Free Space    25,6 GB (3%)