Sudden SSD failure < 2 years old (help)

[pe5er]

I have a Sandisk Ultra 120gb SSD (link) that I have been using for 1 year and 9 months in my old netbook and my ultrabook.
Today, when I tried to boot my ultrabook, it did not boot but went straight into BIOS. When I went into the boot config, it did not show my SSD as a SATA connected drive.
I just tried plugging the suspect SSD into my desktop, but it is not showing up in explorer or partition manager.
There is not very much data I am worried about loosing, as most of my important stuff is on Dropbox, but I would like to recover this data if the drive cannot be fixed.

Thank you, Peter

 

[patrickIT]

Unfortunately it will be very difficult to recover data from a failed SSD much more so compared to HDD. I would recommend to RMA.


but try this;

step1; Plug in the drive's SATA power cable ONLY
step2; Boot the Computer and wait 30 minutes
step3; Plug in the SATA data cable. (keep the computer on power)
step4; Reset Computer

If you do manage to make the SSD work again, immediately backup important data and update firmware, then secure erase the SSD.

 

[pe5er]

Unfortunately it will be very difficult to recover data from a failed SSD much more so compared to HDD. I would recommend to RMA.

Thanks for your reply.

I cant seem to get anything at all out of the SSD, so RMA seems like the only option.

 

[patrickIT]

You might want to try above steps .

 

[pe5er]

Unfortunately it will be very difficult to recover data from a failed SSD much more so compared to HDD. I would recommend to RMA.


but try this;

step1; Plug in the drive's SATA power cable ONLY
step2; Boot the Computer and wait 30 minutes
step3; Plug in the SATA data cable. (keep the computer on power)
step4; Reset Computer

If you do manage to make the SSD work again, immediately backup important data and update firmware, then secure erase the SSD.

Nope, no luck with this, thanks for the suggestion though.