Bricked SSD - Data Recovery?

jonclancy

jonclancy

jonclancy

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Usual story: irregular back ups and an Adata SP900 that's turned its toes up. I bought this drive when overseas and it's within warranty period for RMA. I have data on there I'd be happier to have than to ditch. I sent the drive on a data recovery company who, though sympathetic and efficient, couldn't do anything for me. I can't see the SSD in bios or on any of my various PC/Mac/Lappys I tried it on. Looks like the controller or something similar has had it.

Before I RMA (I'd prefer to secure delete before I do that, but if no-one can retrieve the data anyway...), does anyone know of any last ditch efforts I can try to get my .PST file and pics back please? I was considering soldering another controller chip from an identical drive, but, of course, the registers will be different!

Maybe it'll be worth hanging on to, and writing the purchase cost off, as perhaps tech will advance to a stage one day when I can get the data off for a reasonable sum.

Any thoughts, tips, comments (apart from "Back up more often!!" gratefully received... or has this thing just had it, and I should get Adata to send me a replacement?

Cheers

Jon
 
The name of the forums escape me, but there is one that has mines and mines of information on data recovery, methods, techs and possibly even contacts to the specialised people.
 
Only use an SSD for OS/games/programs next time, all the things that dont matter and can be re-downloaded. I'm sorry to say this but I really don't think you are going to have much luck, you tried a firm already and they couldn't do anything. If the thing can't be seen from the bios then you have no hope of recovering it and putting another controller on it will most likely end up with nothing still.

Like darael says find a forum that specialises in data recovery and hope there is a magical wizard that resides there.
 
jonclancy said:
I was considering soldering another controller chip from an identical drive, but, of course, the registers will be different!
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Unless you have some pretty specialised equipment, replacing the controller chip is not really an option. Obtaining the controller chip could also be quite difficult.
 
Thanks for the tips Folks. I've decided to live with a small hole in my records. I set up an IMAP account to convert that other mail I had on my Macbook to import into Win7 and have not RMA'd the drive as I'd rather my data stayed here (albeit inaccessible). I have a much more robust back up plan onto spinning media now!!!

Cheers

Jon
 
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