January 28, 20179 yr Hi All I have an issue with my SanDisk 120gb SSD that has stopped working properly. Bit of background - it is not my windows drive, BIOS recognises it fine as does device manager. My computer sees it and I can open it and see the folders but all the folders are empty. If I click on properties, the used space and free space is accurately shown. Disk manager shows it as healthy although not active? If I right click and mark as active it says cannot find the file specified. Minitool partition wizard shows it as a bad disk read only and if I try to recover partition it shows the partition status as lost/damaged but when I try to recover nothing happens. Any ideas anyone?
January 29, 20179 yr Author Update - I have tried using Recuva on the drive but it gives me an "invalid drive size" error message?
January 29, 20179 yr My experience is that when SSDs go south, they really go south, permanently and non-recoverable. I am surprised you are able to even "see" it, but that suggests the controller part of the SSD is alive, but likely the media part has a fatal error which the controller can no longer decipher. You have my condolences. John Howell Prepar3D V5, Windows 10 Pro, I7-9700K @ 4.6Ghz, EVGA GTX1080, 32GB Corsair Dominator 3200GHz, SanDisk Ultimate Pro 480GB SSD (OS), 2x Samsung 1TB 970 EVO M.2 (P3D), Corsair H80i V2 AIO Cooler, Fulcrum One Yoke, Samsung 34" 3440x1440 curved monitor, Honeycomb Bravo throttle quadrant, Thrustmaster TPR rudder pedals, Thrustmaster T1600M stick
January 29, 20179 yr Author Damn! I am hoping I can try to recover the data somehow? It sees the drive and that there is 100gb of data on there, I just can't see any of the files, only the folders
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