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.
Have you tried seeing if you can access in Linux? You don’t have to install Linux or replace your Windows OS. You can just create a live USB of Linux and boot into it and then try to access the SSD there.
I had this happen a few weeks ago and Windows refused to access the SSD but Linux saw it and let me copy to and from it with no issues.
Any distro should do. But if you’re not familiar with Linux, I’d suggest something simple like Ubuntu and then open Disk Utility should work to access the drive.