Two days ago, my SSD stopped showing up on my computer (it doesn’t show up in file explorer, disk mgt., device mgt., bios). There was little warning of drive failure; i was downloading a new game to it that morning (had to restart a failed download twice, but the third time succeeded). It’s been humming along without issue for a couple of years now. There are some personal projects, photos, maybe game saves i’d like to retrieve if possible. Any ideas or tips would be helpful?
So far i’ve tried:
- restarting
- scanning with device mgr, disk mgr, in the bios
- power cycling the drive with the sata unplugged
- switching the sata cable to another port (no show)
- switching out the drive for a blank drive(no show as well)
next steps are to try cloning the drive with a 2 bay docking station
spec info:
- drive: 1 TB western digital SA510, working as the secondary drive.
- OS: Windows 10
Edit: thanks for the advice. It looks like this is out of my range of abilities to recover so I’m looking to a professional service now. Let me know of a good data recovery service in the greater Vancouver area of you know of one.
The point is to confirm if the drive is dead, or if it’s some sort of software issue.
I think it’s beyond a software fix at this point. I haven’t had a flicker of life from the drive after switching power/sata cables, a usb drive enclosure and a hdd docking station (i’ve confirmed the external devices work with a different drive). I’m all for booting to linux, but the bios doesn’t report that anything is connected when going through the sata ports.
Most likely, but it doesn’t hurt to check.