Restoring SSD

[Jinhwho]

Hi everybody, 

Ok so to make it short, recently win11 update almost, if not, killed my main SSD, I almost never let the pc sleep, last week the computer got into sleep and when I woke it up after some hours, it refused to wake up, black screen and infinite loading times, I rebooted the pc and to my surprise it booted to my 6 years old win10 copie on my secondary HDD, strange thing is, the SSD can be seen in the bios, windows device manager, impossible to boot from it pc always defaults to my HDD, impossible to access as it doesn’t have any letter, and if I hook it using sata the pc boots after like 8 10 minutes, so removed it and hooked it up using an external ssd case via USB, after nearly and hour the disk can be seen in DiskManager as unknown unallocated space with a Red Cross, also using easus partition manager it recognised the ssd after nearly an hour and asked me to initialize it in either gpt or mbr, screenshots attached below.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Got backups? 

 

This feels like a dead ssd to me. I'd try restoring backups to see if it wants to work again, otherwise RMA/replace the SSD.

[OhYou_]

I have had a few samsung ssds fail kind of like this because a capacitor inside the drive fell short and made the voltage drop causing it to not be able to turn on.

try this, take apart the drive, then plug it into the pc without the shell installed and turn on the pc.
feel around the drive feeling for anything that is boiling hot, carefully of course. if there is a shorted capacitor it will be extremely hot.
in most cases you can just desolder it or cut it in half and recover the data *if this is the issue*
 

[Jinhwho]

What about easus asking me to initialize it mbr gpt ?? 

[OhYou_]

initializing the drive, if it even works, will destroy the data

[Jinhwho]

4 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

initializing the drive, if it even works, will destroy the data

Awch, can I back it up or something in its current state ?

[OhYou_]

1 minute ago, Jinhwho said:

Awch, can I back it up or something in its current state ?

you can try using something like DD in GNU/Linux.
just dd if=/dev/yourssdhere of=~/image.img
if it fails then its not readable.

I would do what I said earleir and check the drive physically for an issue because there is no risk to it.

[Jinhwho]

6 minutes ago, OhYou_ said:

you can try using something like DD in GNU/Linux.
just dd if=/dev/yourssdhere of=~/image.img
if it fails then its not readable.

I would do what I said earleir and check the drive physically for an issue because there is no risk to it.

Ok thanks I’ll try it out to see.