SSD and Windows 10 Recovery

[nheather]

My son’s SSD boot disk has failed.

Windows 10 froze while he was using it.

Hard reset

Then froze.

Hard reset in safe mode

Attempted recovery

Got ‘diagnosing issue’ spinning wheel but shortly came back saying can’t be recovered.

So far I have connected it to my PC using a USB to SATA interface.

It registers as drive F: with a message that there is a fault with the disk.

However, I can browse the contents and have managed to copy the contents across to my hard disk.

So my thinking is, I wouldn’t use it again and we are buying a new SSD. But it also feels that it is recoverable which would be worth doing to clone to the new disk.

So appreciate any suggestions of what I can try to recover it.

Cheers,

Nigel

 

[nheather]

Just to tie up this thread.

As I said I was able to read the disk, so can get any files off that are needed.

I did get macrium reflect and that was able to clone to the new drive but as we were all guessing, it simply made a perfect copy of a corrupted drive.

We could have tried a repair install but in the end decided that a nice fresh windows would be best, the one on there was 8 years old having started out as windows 7 and updated to windows 10 and having gained all sorts of lumps and warts along the way so a fresh install is a good thing. And it turned out there wasn’t so much that would be a chore to reinstate.

Cheers,

Nigel