Re: Can one rescue a dead SSD?

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 5 Nov 2022 at 17:43, andreas.fournier(a)runbox.com 
wrote:

Subject:        	Re: Can one rescue a dead SSD?
From:           	andreas.fournier(a)runbox.com
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>  On Sat, 2022-11-05 at 15:27 +0100, andreas.fournier(a)runbox.com
> wrote:
>  > So, a SSD just dieded on me, the root and home partition was on it.
>  > The
>  > computer froze and after a cold boot the BIOS doesn't find the disk
>  > anymore. I opened up the casing but couldn't see anything suspicious
>  > to
>  > the naked eye. 
>  > 
>  > Anything I could do at home to try to rescue it? I have backups of
>  > most
>  > things but not the most recent stuff. 
>  
>  I tried now to connect the SSD over a sata to usb adapter to an other
>  machine. It didn't show up. I'm guessing the only possibility would be
>  a professional rescue service. 
After you hook it up, run dmesg and see what it reports. 
Does it show an attempt to see the device, and if so does 
it show wany error message.

Haven't messed with SSD drives so don't know if they are 
all one thing or not.
Many years ago, had a fellow teacher have a 60G drive 
fail with no backup and lots of files she needed. The drive 
turned out to have a chip that had fried on the board. 
Found a drive on ebay with same model number for $20, 
and was able to swap the boards and recover all data, but 
have no ideal how often that would work.

DefCon 2006 had a presentation on recovering disk, and 
it had a number of steps.. 

dmesg might report something.



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