Dell SSD

Disponded

Disponded

Disponded

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Hi all
I was given a Dell Inspiron M5030 laptop to look at for a relative. It had stopped working and had been sitting on a shelf unused for about 3-4 years. It had over heated and I used a heat gun and reflowed the board. That fixed the first problem and I managed to get it to boot to BIOS. It was indicating a hardware fault so I thought I would just take out the SSD and copy any data off it onto a USB stick.
I connected it to my PC and could see it, but I could only see one folder System Volume Information. I thought this might be a Windows thing so I booted up in Linux and looked at the drive again. Same thing only seeing System Volume Information.
I am assuming the drive is knackered but I thought I would ask here in case I am missing something Dell related that I don't know about. I did run Recuva in windows but it couldn't find anything.
Are the folders and files gone? Or are they somehow hidden?
Thanks for the help.
 

JR1

JR1

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Hi Disponded,

In Windows what shows up in Disk Management? Does the drive have multiple partitions?

I assume the SSD was the boot drive in the Dell laptop. It is strange that there is no sign of the system files...

but I dont think you should assume the drive is knackered. If you can see it and run Recuva against it, it sounds quite encouraging to me.

I've had a couple of Dell laptops in the past and I dont think there is any Dell related thing going on (though I guess the drive may have had a recovery partition)

Regds, JR
 
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