[SOLVED] Recovering Data from OS SSD

[ChaoticRambo]

I recently suffered some type of SSD failure. My computer suddenly froze up and upon restarting I was continually sent into the BIOS. Trying every fix suggested online I came to the realization that something was wrong with the SSD. The BIOS saw the SSD but would not provide it as a boot option.

I have already purchased a new SSD and have completed a fresh install of windows. I do have backup files for the majority of my information, but was hoping I might be able to get some stuff off the old drive. I have connected the drive, and the computer sees it is there but I don't seem to have an option to actually assign it a drive letter.

This is my first SSD/HDD failure and/or attempt at recovering data, so I really have no clue what I am doing. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[popatim]

Do not format the drive.
Depending on which drive this is, data may be encrypted and unrecoverable (a self encrypting drive).

1st step would be to check the drives health with something like crystaldiskinfo to check the dries SMART
can you link us to a screenshot of the results that you upload to a sharing service please?

Once the drive is determined to be healthy then we can attempt data recovery. The first step of that would be to try and recover all the partitions.

 

[ChaoticRambo]

Do not format the drive.
Depending on which drive this is, data may be encrypted and unrecoverable (a self encrypting drive).

1st step would be to check the drives health with something like crystaldiskinfo to check the dries SMART
can you link us to a screenshot of the results that you upload to a sharing service please?

Once the drive is determined to be healthy then we can attempt data recovery. The first step of that would be to try and recover all the partitions.

Here is the health report, seems like it is okay?

 

[ChaoticRambo]

I am not sure if it makes a difference in recovery method, but I am not trying to recover all the data on this drive. I stored the vast majority of my documents on a secondary drive which was unaffected.

There are only a handful of specific documents I am trying to recover, probably only a few MB of data but stuff that would take me quite a while to re-produce...

 

[USAFRet]

I am not sure if it makes a difference in recovery method, but I am not trying to recover all the data on this drive. I stored the vast majority of my documents on a secondary drive which was unaffected.

There are only a handful of specific documents I am trying to recover, probably only a few MB of data but stuff that would take me quite a while to re-produce...

You can't do recovery like that.

 

[ChaoticRambo]

For anyone else that may read this thread and have an identical problem, you can use EaseUS to recover data.

I was able to recover all of the files I needed quickly and easily using this program. I didn't need to recover a large quantity, so the free version did just fine for me. I was able to go through my old drives directory just like it was running normally.

 

[popatim]

Grats!
That was a good drive back in the day. It's almost as old and my (non-evo) Samsung 840 , it's too bad it didn't make it to it's rated Endurance of 72TB.