How to fix a "dead" SSD for free | Reviving broken SSDs | No tools, no software, no money!

[@limitless-hardware1866]

Learn how to recover data from a dead SSD → bit.ly/3LpM4fT Windows Update or other unforeseen events such as crashes can lead to data loss or corruption in some instances. If windows for example shows "this drive needs to be formatted to be usable" then this is one situation where a data recovery software could help.

[@renaissance18]

mine has a sandforce bug 200026BB how do i fix this, the os is a windows 11 on my asus raidr 240gb pci express with no partition on it = 33kb only, do i press the power button down on the motherboard itself or use the power supply to turn the system off at this point we would recommend disconnecting the power cable from the SSD for 30 seconds and repeating the process. = power cycle inside the bios

[@limitless-hardware1866]

@@renaissance18 I think a drive with the sandforce bug wil not work, as this is kind of a hardware defect then. if you need the data off of it. a recovery software MIGHT help, but usually, has to go to a specialist.

[@renaissance18]

@@limitless-hardware1866 Turn on the power and leave the power on for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, power down or pull the power cable. Wait 30 seconds, then restore power. Let the drive sit powered on for another 30 minutes. Power down again, then wait 30 seconds.

[@limitless-hardware1866]

Its similar to what i described but you dont need to let the computer sit after you turn it off, i doubt that it will work with your issue tho

[@renaissance18]

@@limitless-hardware1866 ok do i turn off the computer through the motherboard power button or use the power supply switch to turn off the pc for 30 seconds

[@ajlalas]

Thank you so much for posting this. I followed the steps and it worked for a supposedly "dead" M.2 SSD drive on a Dell laptop, after liquid had gotten into the case. I added the SSD to an enclosure, plugged it into a charging cube and left it alone. It seemed warm to the touch at first, but eventually got cool again. I figured at that point the self-checking of the SSD was complete

[@berndhofbauer6482]

YAY! another 2TB m.2 NVME rescued thanks to you. put it into an USB enclosure and left it on a usb-charger for about 15 minutes. thanks a lot

[@rswow]

What error were you getting?

[@Zeanonquaint]

Can you tell us what type of enclosure you used? Thanks beforehand

[@WaveSurfer-l5d]

Thanks so much for the tip. Works!!!!! I had a SATA disk which suddenly stopped being recognised. I put it in en external USB SATA enclosure and plugged the USB socket into a mains charger, leaving the mains plug on the USB enclosure unplugged. After 15 minutes it was recognised immediately. Thank you so much!!!

[@varunpawar]

Thanks for giving me the motivation to give it another try ! Plugging the sata cable and then after sometime the data cable worked for me The disk showed in disk management, then I just formated the disk and its working perfectly fine. Thanks again dude !

[@harzil]

SSDs last more than HDDs??? Come on... I have all my HDDs from the '90s (IDEs and SATAs)and they all work perfectly, minus the one dropped on the floor... I even have my first HDD from 1987 20MB HDD (MB not GB) from an Epson PC and it works.

[@villagerjj]

yeah, HDDs are rated for ~50 years if stored and maintained properly. SSDs are also good, but that is assuming you don't read and write to it often.

[@andrewcowing9141]

Hard drives are definitely good if you leave them and don’t touch them, but they are still less reliable, they get affected by outside sources such as magnets and movement, while ssds can be thrown around and still work fine. They’re basically just bigger and faster sd cards. It’s like comparing an incandescent bulb to a led. Sometimes incandescent bulbs can last insanely long and even though leds can sometimes fail they do still last longer than incandescent on average. Either way all drives fail so have a backup for important stuff

[@chrisrose_krii_lun_aus]

Yep

I guess you can't tell it from such a small sample because all of these are pretty reliable. But if you want more anecdotes, I have quite few dead 2.5" HDDs and I had 3.5" drives die on me in my desktop machine when I still had one. (Fortunately, they were in a RAID array and didn't die at once.) I also have a ~10 years old external Samsung HDD that, I think has problems. I can't speak for the SSDs, but my few months old NVMe WD has just died 😕

[@chrisrose_krii_lun_aus]

@ Hey man I always keep a HDD to back up a lot of stuff. I don't trust SDD either. I've had 2 M.2 go bad on me. They just load a lot faster. You know how crowded a PC is getting now and they take up less room. You can tell a difference when loading programs and even playing them. Until they just stop making them though I'm with you. I have HDDs I've has for I know 15 years and I can still plug them in and find what I want.

[@Reelreactions999]

This worked for me perfectly. I plugged the drive into my phone charger and let it sit for a few hours (honestly for got about it). Afterwards plugged it into the computer and it worked perfectly. Was able to transfer all the important data to my internal drive. It was a WD Blue drive. Thanks alot!!

[@suwandicahyadi9213]

How do you plug the drive into a phone charger? Is it and external SSD?

[@GoingShirtless]

@@suwandicahyadi9213 Probably an external drive with USB connector.

[@rockgamerz201]

Bro please tell me what you did I did not understand what he has said my ssd is not showing up in bios and I am not able to open my operating system and I have seen my ssd it is not damaged from anywhere help me 😢

[@adm1nistration]

good luck wiith its reliability

[@dagwoodchat6350]

Helped a lot. I ordered 4 ssd from temu and all worked for about 30 minutes to an hour. I tried this and "recovered" 3 of them.. Thank you so much.

[@chairmanxina2338]

Hope u didnt pay much. Definetly got scammed

[@ODT-59200]

Thanks a ton mate. I'm the kind of old geek trying things before to throw computer stuff in the bin. (Tried the oven method for a motherboard with an integrated GPU micro-weld issue and it worked once 10 years ago :) ) After hours of search on YT, about "how to fix SSD not recognized by bios" I land here and has to be said : it was the only video I found delivering something to try for this kind of issue. Other videos were only using the 'bios' in title for YT algo and providing things for SSD already seen in bios. I had this issue on a PNY C400 240GB SSD, and doing it for 1 hour seems to make it back to life. Win10 was even able to boot on it. You rocks, thanks a lot. 1 more suscriber and I will take a look on every of yours videos !

[@limitless-hardware1866]

Thank you for the kind words and the sub 👍appreciate it, qlthough some people seem to think so otherwise, but the results speak for themselves haha

[@ujual2095]

This is some really good advice. I was told my SSD was dead at the company service center. I followed your advice and i have everything up and running again. Thanks!

[@rockgamerz201]

Bro please tell me what you did I did not understand what he has said my ssd is not showing up in bios and I am not able to open my operating system and I have seen my ssd it is not damaged from anywhere help me 😢

[@hosnaoude]

​@@rockgamerz201 plug ur ssd in the computer just keep your computer turned into bios for an hour like that it will feed power to ur ssd and might refix itself to turn bios press f12 on most laptops

[@SpiritusIgneus87]

Thank you so much for posting this video! I thought my data was gone forever after my secondary SSD failed. I followed the steps, and while it didn't make the SSD actually work again, it did allow me to recover the data from the SSD.

[@ok-js3tp]

2:22 dude that jump scared me so hard i threw my ssd on the floor and broke it physically, i don't need this video no more

[@MotivationSecretsOfficial]

good u broke it physically but not mentally

[@sagxtar264]

POWER

[@ozricus]

I did this trick for my external SSD for my laptop and it worked. I just booted into the BIOS/UEFI for 30 mins, powered down for 30 mins, booted into the BIOS/UEFI for 30 mins and then again, 30 mins power off and voilà.

[@ozricus]

Although it happened again after a few weeks :(. I ended up getting a new mvne This time a WD since the failing one was a Samsung . That Samsung only lasted for 1 year.

[@zaheer-01]

How did you but into EUFI? My drive is m.2

[@Caeso1332]

Bought a brand new ssd on AliXpress. After downloading one file in it, the ssd got corrupted. Not showing, not being detected, keep getting weird error message such as "a device which does not exist was specified" Couldn format it, couldnt delete the volume. Couldnt do anything I did the BIOS trick for 1 full hour And it worked, had to format the SSD But it worked !!!

[@TheSonicFan4]

Sadly this didn't work for my dead Samsung 860 Evo SSD.

[@watchtowerv]

I am surprised that my SSD was not initialized. Your video helped me to get it working.

[@yaakovhabusha]

I had an SSD drive that went bad and the computer didn't recognize it. After watching this video, I am happy that the process was successful and now everything is fine! Thank you so much for the video, it was very helpful !

[@limitless-hardware1866]

Glad it helped

[@tdoljuu]

​@@limitless-hardware1866 didn't help for me😢

[@williamcase426]

👏👏👏

[@Myself-yh9rr]

What would surprise a lot of people is if they opened the drive and looked. The main board of a lot of SATA drives is surprisingly small. They just keep the 2.5 inch form factor probably for easier monting.

[@SpiralKipz]

Sitting in BIOS for an hour fixed my SATA SSD at least for now, thanks!

[@hondaaccord9394]

How ? i have 2TB ssd but its now working properly.

[@truelightseeker]

Hey thanks man. My SSD was suddenly gone and just letting the PC run with no data cable fixed it up to be detected again and I could make an image to save my data and replace the drive.

[@rockgamerz201]

Bro please tell me what you did I did not understand what he has said my ssd is not showing up in bios and I am not able to open my operating system and I have seen my ssd it is not damaged from anywhere help me 😢

[@truelightseeker]

@@rockgamerz201 Keep in mind I had a SATA SSD. Meaning it was not the kind that you insert directly into the Motherboard, but instead have to connect it with cables. Here is what I did: The SATA SSD has two SATA cables connected to it. One goes to the PSU for power and the other to the SATA connector on the Motherboard for Data. While the PC was shut down and the PSU turned off, I disconnected the SATA cable going to the motherboard. So that only the power cable was still connected to the SSD. Then I turned the PSU back on and booted the PC. I then kept it on for about an hour while I did something else. According to the video during this time the SSD should run some kind of repair cycle. You don't know how long that takes, which is why you should keep the PC running for a while. After that hour, I shut the PC off over the Power Button and then reconnected the SATA data cable with the SSD. Then I turned the PC back on and my SSD showed up in the BIOS again. The fix actually held for a couple days until the SSD disappeared again and then I did the whole thing a second time and it worked again. But then I really got a new SSD.

[@rockgamerz201]

@@truelightseeker thanks for your time. i understand now

[@KimJongUnPutin]

Thank you so much for the great info.. my SSD working again...

[@limitless-hardware1866]

Great to hear!

[@panklovatina3329]

Thanks! I tried it on SSD SU650 240GB and it works again!

[@rockgamerz201]

Bro please tell me what you did I did not understand what he has said my ssd is not showing up in bios and I am not able to open my operating system and I have seen my ssd it is not damaged from anywhere help me 😢

[@panklovatina3329]

​@@rockgamerz201 You can turn on subtitles and watch from 2:14. Unplug sata cable, so only power cable is connected, turn on pc, go to bios and wait 1 hour(it does not have to be in bios if you have problem to entering it, but the pc have to be on, so the power goes to the ssd). Then turn off pc, reconnect sata cable and tun pc on again. Maybe it will help, maybe not.

[@rockgamerz201]

@@panklovatina3329 thanks for your time i understand now

[@akash1430.]

​@@rockgamerz201Bro have you got your data back, I'm facing the same issue 😢

[@kellykeys8336]

Can you use a HDD/SSD dock without the USB cable attached for the same procedure instead of mounting inside a PC?

[@aquagraph810]

Due to your informative content, i have got back my dead Sata SSD, wheres technician has declared this as dead. Great work

[@akash1430.]

I am facing the same issue 😢, hopefully, I will also get my data

[@mikebezett9931]

Great video - I have also successfully a WD BlueSA510 by connecting via USB to Ubuntu 24.04, (with both power and data connected), and running the Disks utility. Using the Check File System option the drive's activity light came up and the drive started to re-establish all the files. The process took over 3 hours to recover approx 120GB of data, but was successful. No data loss.

[@P4C800d]

Wow, thank you! I didn't know about the self-repair procedure. I've just had an SSD die on my, but it didn't contain anything special so I immediately RMAed it. Next time I'm going to use the power only trick. Cool!

[@rockgamerz201]

Bro please tell me what you did I did not understand what he has said my ssd is not showing up in bios and I am not able to open my operating system and I have seen my ssd it is not damaged from anywhere help me 😢

[@Butler-Aneke]

What's RMAed?

[@JayScottee]

​@@rockgamerz201 as much as I want to help,since I'm having this problem,these are most likely bots.

[@rockgamerz201]

@@JayScottee what if bots started to reply 😂 then we will call it ai

[@BlvdBullet78]

@@Butler-Aneke Return merchandise authorization, you need it most of the time to return items to a manufacturer.

[@MMike-w4f]

Wooow it worked, 20 minutes into a USB HDD Dock with just the power and now back to life ! Thanks !

[@BANDIT198455]

YES YES YES! This worked perfectly for me on my Samsung 870 EVO. I thought I was out 170.00! But it is as good as new. However, I was not able to retrieve my data. No big deal whatsoever as I have backups of that anyway. Thank you so much!

[@carminegaccione338]

Thank you ever so much... after many hours and different approaches.. I came upon your video and it worked... I can't tell you how happy I am, and you made my day, my month and my year.. Thanks again.. Carmine

[@hohoakira]

it is crazy !!!! i just fix my ssd with the way u mention !!!!! it save me a lot of time.. although don't have any importance data, but it is a hard drive which run window !!!! u save me so much time and money !!! very big thanks !!!

[@user-cw2gv2ot9f]

Thank you so much- that you tip you gave about just plugging it in- invaluable. For, unplugging it and plugging it in again, as you first suggested, did the trick. So, I used the opportunity to transfer all my data to a different machine and buy an upgrade for my sketchy 25" SSD.

[@MrBecker666]

I have a bunch of hdd from 97 & they still work SSD rated for at least 5yrs … got an SSD from Temu and kept swapping it with a hdd for almost a year but now the SSD got slower will definitely try your technique

[@DKrog]

The sound @ 0:20 definitely gives me some nostalgia. Why is it that the old modem sound still sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me?

[@dimensions7834]

Wish I researched this first. I sent my drive to a company in LA and am hoping I get my files off it, but it will cost at least $400.

[@わかるマーン]

One of my SSD's died, and trying this method out. Kept me awake all night long trying to diagnose it to no avail. The SSD is formatted with ZFS, so there's very few software tools available, and all of them failed, so trying out hardware solutions now.

[@わかるマーン]

Reporting back, and I can confirm that this trick worked. Additionally, I learned that the cause of the SSD dying was because of the SATA cable being faulty, because I put another SSD in place of the one I just revived again, and now that other SSD is dead.

[@itsmedeo]

Thank u so much!!! It fixed my crucial ssd with this method, saved me from buying another one. thank you!!!

[@longlifeprinters9]

I am finding that San Disk & Samsung SSD's are really good & don't fail quickly. But, Western Digital Blue & especially HP Blue drives have failed for me consistently !!! They are consistent at failing & the warranty method of getting a replacement or refund is a joke, waste of more time after trying to revive the drives that stay dead. I will try this recovery method & hope to get some results, I have 5 SSD's to try it on. Side note is that my most recent August 2023, Office Max purchase of a San Disk 500 GB SSD was $29 out the door, on special. My first spinning drive I ever bought back in 1996 was a 800 mega byte drive = less than 1 gig, and cost $300.

[@limitless-hardware1866]

Had similar experiences with samsung. they lasted the best but the thing is Western digital drives are basically sandisk, since WD was bought by them. and the ssds are just rebranded pretty sure.

[@rockgamerz201]

Bro please tell me what you did I did not understand what he has said my ssd is not showing up in bios and I am not able to open my operating system and I have seen my ssd it is not damaged from anywhere help me 😢

[@zauq5010]

After going through comments and asking this question to Microsoft's Copilot. It was confirmed that the SSDs can be recovered using the suggested technique if it's due to sudden power loss or minor issue with Writes or SSDs firmware etc. Why I was curious?? Well, in the past I had faced similar issues with 2 SSDs and didn't know about this method hence couldn't do anything about those SSDs. Should I face these issue in future then I have this method to give a try. Thanks for your suggestion.

[@sergiobisonte]

50-60% chance??? I really doubt that!! 99.9999999999% of ssds stop working when something phisically burns or dies! im trying this method right now.. i'll update soon.. PS: And..... it did not work.. obviously...

[@HerbOldenburg]

left a Lexor 500gb 2.5 sata plugged into power for 1 hour - shut down - added data and power - powered on - no drive. Moved the drive to 2nd computer windows 11 and to a 2.5 caddy USB and hit the power - checked mgmt - no joy - then all of a sudden the drive started blinking in the usb caddy and i could see it uninitialized in the mgmt interface. Could not initialize so left it blinking to see if it would change anything - thx for sharing the video with your experience - its helpful and i will remember the power only for 1 hr. trick - still working the Lexor 500.

[@STEEL_DEMON]

thank you very much , i bought a Sata SSD and it wasn't showing in my windows , the second part helped me

[@Sugurain]

OMG, it actually worked! I have a 2TB NVME drive that died to the point of not being recognized by the bios anymore. I used a NVME to USB case to power it, after around 1hour and 10-20 minutes the led begun blinking and my SDD was detected even in Windows. Even the partitions it had were still there, but they're all being read as "RAW" instead of "NTFS", If I can restore these partitions to NTFS, I could potentially recover all my data!

[@TheSonicFan4]

Any luck with the recovery?

[@Sugurain]

@@TheSonicFan4 None so far. I'm afraid this drive failed because of bga solder problems, as the drive stops being recognized after it cools down, and takes a random amount of time to be recognized again, probably because it heats quite a bit when powered up. I have a heat gun I could use to try to reflow the solder, but this would certainly destroy the label and void the warranty. I'm torn between a small chance of recovering my data (non-critical data btw) and getting a new ssd via warranty. Trying to restore the RAW partitions back to NTFS yelds no results either, no matter what kind of program I try, it displays a message that the drive is not responding. It is being recognized as an Adata xpg gammix, the correct model of this drive, so I believe it's not a firmware issue, as it knows what it is. Information on the drive is not correct though, the temperature of the drive is 2920℃ according to the adata ssd tool. Lol

[@TheSonicFan4]

@@Sugurain Meanwhile in my case, Samsung won't even do a warranty for me because they simply do not honour their warranty in Canada, so I'm screwed no matter what. I'm forced to one day buy another one and return mine in the package claiming the serial numbers don't match because I don't have any other choice. But I'm holding on to it for now in the hopes that it just randomly works one day.

[@Sugurain]

@@TheSonicFan4 Yeah. I'm kinda in the same spot. I'm from Brazil and there is an Adata representative here, but since I bought my drive from Ali Express, they want me to ship it to Taiwan to try to get them to send me a new drive lol

[@RonGrethel]

Did not know about the power trick. Think I did it by accident leaving it plugged into a Nas that wasn't turned on and then suddenly the drive worked again. Recently died again once I changed a bios setting which I'm pretty sure is what happened last time. Sure, why that would make it undetectable. Been looking for a solution and stumbled upon your video. Going to try again. I'll let you know if it works!

[@DireNeeds]

Just got an old kingston working. I'm just going to store some music files on it and see if it holds up for a while. SMART says it is good! Thanks.

[@acehandler1530]

Glad I watched this, thank you! I have a brand new 1TB SSD I bought off Amazon that never worked...I'll have to try this method, excellent 🙂

[@Butler-Aneke]

Did it work?

[@acehandler1530]

@@Butler-Aneke No, and I really tried...I'm really sad now 😞

[@akash1430.]

Did it work bro?

[@acehandler1530]

@@akash1430. Nope, still total snafu 😞

[@akash1430.]

@@acehandler1530 😓

[@CD-vb9fi]

Have you ever tried "baking" any?

[@limitless-hardware1866]

Not really. the Problem with the baking is that it only shifts the traces connecting a Die to a PCB such as in a memory controller or GPU itself. It does not reball the BGA or solder in most cases unless you use temperatures above 220C and then you risk melting plastic on a sata ssd. It would be possible using a heat gun, but due to ssds not heating up and cooling down as often as GPUs for example, this will probably only work in very rare cases. Your bete bet would be to give the disk to a specialist to recover data since you would probably damage more by baking it, than fixing anything. There will be a video on that whole topic of baking and reballing soon.

[@cosettapessa6417]

@@lurch789lol

[@jhinkhada546]

Does this work for SSD that reached its write limit? Because mine is brand new but upon install OS we stumbled on to many errors and so normally we kept installing and uninstalling it and tried to install windows. My pc can still read my SSD in the file manager but it says write protected, we tried the cmd method and other apps to rectify it and it always says successful but its still write protected, maybe because we drained its write limit. Could this method possibly fix it?

[@ppsonic6677]

I did as you showed in the video with my M2 SSD. Surprisingly it worked. Previously, the drive was not visible in either BIOS or Windows. After your instructions it started to display everywhere. In CMD I am able to enter it and look at the files but nothing else. Every time I try to access it my computer crushes. I will add that I am doing this from another drive.

[@justenergy1724]

I have a similar problem. Laptop just crashed during casual day. The SSD is not initialized in Windows or the BIOS because it shows that it is currently empty even when this is not true. EaseUS Data Recovery can find all my data but i would like to just repair it that is works normally as before. A Boot stick from AOEMI Backupper or Macrium did not work. Always the drive is not initialized and empty. I don't know what to do actually. Rescue my data and start all over again would maybe work but in the future this can happen any time. Thank you Samsung 980 Pro 😅

[@ppsonic6677]

@@justenergy1724 I was recently at a local service that deals with data restoration and possible repair of such drives. The prices are astronomical. I was told that the drive can no longer be repaired to make it work in any way. Only it is possible to restore data from it but that costs too much. Mine was from Goodram

[@rockgamerz201]

Bro please tell me what you did I did not understand what he has said my ssd is not showing up in bios and I am not able to open my operating system and I have seen my ssd it is not damaged from anywhere help me 😢

[@akash1430.]

I am going to do this 😢, wish me luck

[@PhillipRozemulder]

worked like a charm thank you so much

[@amvkarthik]

Sir, thank you. I now have some hope on recovering a dead wd green 480gb ssd.

[@akash1430.]

Same with my 128gb, I have bought it a year ago with my money and this happened

[@devincurrie4145]

I have recently bought a Silicon Power SSD drive a few months ago and it is already dead. Tried your trick by powering the SSD for about an hour or so; shutdown computer; attached the data cable to the SSD; and started the computer again getting into Win10. Win10 is showing the SSD as "Disk 1 Unknown - Not Initialized" so tried to initialize the dead SSD as MBR and received the following message "A device which does not exist was specified." Trying to initialize the SSD as GPT produce the same message. Any suggestion on what to do at this point?

[@limitless-hardware1866]

hmm thats wierd never had that issue. is there a possibility to reflash the firmware on that drive?

[@devincurrie4145]

@@limitless-hardware1866 Silicon Power has firmware update available for SSD however I'm still having problem initializing the disk Win10's Disk Management before I can do anything with it. Even the AOMEI Partition Assistant isn't able to initialize the disk. I'll try powering the SSD again without the data cable attached for the next few hours and try again later.

[@krueed9349]

Any updates?

[@devincurrie4145]

@@krueed9349Unsuccessful so no longer trying. Decided to go with a different brand instead of SP going forward.

[@richardhinchey1999]

Also the 'clean' function in CMD does a factory reset on the drive. Another trick that can help restore it

[@limitless-hardware1866]

Yep it does as explained but you have to re initialyze the drive after as it doesnt show up otherwise

[@DelticEngine]

What about using a USB to SATA adapter, or would the interface chip stop the drive trying to fix itself because it thinks there's a data connection? Would that work? I'm the drive could be powered from a phone charger instead of a PC and quietly left to try and sort itself out. If the USB to SATA adapter works then would a USB power monitor give an indication of activity within the drive and therefore a clue whether a repair attempt is completed or not?

[@limitless-hardware1866]

in Theory not but i have not tried it and am therefore not really sure aout it. but since you would only need power and most of enclosures connect both at the same time would be more difficult.

[@enginerd80]

Perhaps you could get a short SATA extension cable, one that has separable power and data parts? That way, you could connect the drive only to the power part in the enclosure.

[@ElxCriiO]

@@limitless-hardware1866 i put a piece of roling paper on the data side, it prevents the connection of data. im already doing the trick, updating soon.

[@kaioh33]

@@ElxCriiO any updates on this, as I do not have a power only cable

[@ElxCriiO]

@@kaioh33 it did improve, you dont need a powr only, just use a regular caddy usb and put a thin paper or dielectric tape in the data fins so only power is coming in. it started showing on diskpart and disk manager but still couldnt create a volume or partition. pretty cool anyways

[@aleksandrbmelnikov]

Guess again. Open the drive and just look for the simple s#!t. See if there's a fuse next to power connector. Then test for a shorted capacitor after it. These are things someone with minimum amount of soldering skill can fix. If it gets into reballing chips, then send it off for service. Don't try to bake your SSD, or reflow chips. The lead-free solder used doesn't take well to reheating, so you'll end up with more bad solder joints. Best of luck to anyone reading this.

[@limitless-hardware1866]

Thanks for the insight. Yeah if the trick shown in the video doesnt work this would probably be the best thing to be done next! 👍

[@aleksandrbmelnikov]

@@limitless-hardware1866 If it helps, switch your microscope over to thermal imaging, and inject 1 to 1.5 volts into 5v input. Quickly look for a hot spot, and snapshot it. It may not be the failed component, but it is where you should start your backtrace. Most no-detect drives are because power delivery stage could not handle inrush from a bad SATA cable/plug connection. I don't know why these components are not made more robust. Nature of the beast? ¯\_(o_°)_/¯ Best to never plug drives into computers with the power already on, or use a USB to SATA adaptor (it takes the hit, and not the SSD). Anyway, it couldn't hurt to try your self-repair trick. I'll remember it. Thank you.👍

[@limitless-hardware1866]

@@aleksandrbmelnikov Never was really deep into repairing electronics. i know how to find a short, but thats about it haha :D and for the average tinkerer, i think the trick shown is the best way to go off of first, even before sending a drive in for warranty.

[@ivanthiel6219]

This method worked for me. Thanks.

[@hddrecoveryservices]

0:52 higher life expectancy than a hard drive? you must be kidding. CMR hard drives, if not dropped, can last for a decade. SSDs we get on daily basis last less than a year (especially that WD blue SA510 on your table) 2:50 great advice

[@limitless-hardware1866]

in my experience high quality ssds last longer than most hard drives. obviously for cheap drives this might not be the case and especially TBW on QLC SSDs are comparetively low but i had more hard drives fail myself than SSDs. but that may vary as experiences go. Could also be the case that seeing less hard drives die is more common because few people buy hard drives anymore. I think the sandisk (now WD) drives were kinda pron to breaking if i remember correctly,not exactly sure tho, i had good luck with them never had one come back broken in my time in a retail outlet) also thanks :D

[@kelvinthenedy]

Nah, he got WD Blue 3D Nand, not the SA510, they're actually different even though WD seemed to stopped producing the original 3D Nand version Edit: much more people has issues with SA510 rather than the 3D Nand ones

[@Dude_Slick]

Old hard drives last forever, but they're small and slow. I have SATA HDDs from 20 years ago laying around that still work perfectly. But what good is the extra 6GB? You wouldn't pay a dollar for a thumb drive that small today. Back then I had a desktop setup for my kids with a 500MB IDE drive, and it had plenty of room for the OS and a bunch of games. New mechanical drives are shit, They can't handle the size and speed demands of modern computing. For years they had to suffice, as SSDs cost an arm and a leg for a half a terabyte. You say HDDs can last a decade, but the ones that have were made over a decade ago and are likely a TB at best.

[@Myself-yh9rr]

Old hard drives may have been loud but they were not too terrible. The ones I had were not anyhow. I thought some of them sounded good really.

[@mostafashahat9760]

awesome it works with me 👌THANKS a MILLION 💖

[@TacticalGamer007]

Hello, i have an M2 SSD Kingston KC3000 bought in May 2023 and now i'm facing issues with it. For example, the ssd is detected in windows, but the PC boots very very slow due to it. What i'm worried about is that i have 1.7tb of data on it and tried to move/copy, but the speed is very slow, i tried to copy 24gn today, managed to copy only 9gb in 14hrs, at some point it got stuck at a file and hade to shutdown the pc. But also the shutdown part due to the kingston m2 it very slow, around 10min it takes to shutdown. And we're talking about a PC build from scratch last year (2023), which has Ryzen9 7900, 32gb ram, mobo gigabyte aorus elite ax, rtx 3070ti, as a main boot ssd i have an 2tb samsung 990pro and yesterday o ordered also a 4tb one to try to save my data from the kingston one. What would you recommend i'd do in regards to this kingston kc3000 ? Thx a lot!

[@SkeasySimple]

I am trying this with my Samsung 870 EVO. I hope this works but I am still very disappointed by Samsung. Its been only 2,5 years. EDIT: I tried it two times for over an hour. Didnt work at all. Cant even use the computer manage tool from windows. Doesnt show anything.

[@Myself-yh9rr]

Some SSDs go into a write protect mode when they fail. I hope that it still gives you a chance to read it but not write any more to it. Is there a list of the drives that do that so that we can look for those. I they are more expensive I don't mind. It would just be nice to have the data all still there just not changeable on the drive. This would be when the NAND charge trap cells are too worn out. The more layers per cell the worse it gets. QLC is already questionable for most uses. It would be OK for a backup if the drive is a reliable brand. Also if a drive has a good controller and good firmware that stripe the data across any NAND chips on the drive that would be better yet. One with more NAND chips even if the same capacity as one with fewer would be good for that. Also if more chips it may be a more reliable NAND with fewer layers per cell. SLC would be great but real SLC NANC is hard to find and horribly expensive. You will most likely find SLC in an industrial drive. Not all industrial drives will be SLC. The key is that they are supposed to be more reliable in hotter environments and also less likely to fail. Maybe they even fail in a way where the drive is just write protected to protect the data from damage so you can still get it back without expensive services.

[@Yeasir.AraFath]

I have a SATA drive, and suddenly my Windows crashed. When I entered the BIOS to check if it was detected, I found that it was visible. However, when I attempted to format or delete the partition, it failed. I also tried using the CMD method, but it wouldn't format. So, I decided to take it to a service center. They connected the SSD to their laptop using a USB converter, but their laptop froze after inserting my SSD. They give it back to me. Is it possible to repair?

[@GetTechyWithD]

SAME here haha

[@ringo1094]

This work for me, my old ssd died 2 years ago get second chance of life

[@opinionatorX]

Are you plugging this drive up to another computer with a data transfer cable? Do you have a video showing the steps?

[@Core.Dreams]

Brother ! My SSD Backuped the HDD for the 1st time. . But fails after 17% from 2nd time onwards.. Drive is accessible . Can't figure out the problem.

[@williamcase426]

gotta recovevr

[@robertoperaza2683]

thank you for the thorough explanation

[@OMGitsJo]

My ssd is dead in the way where if I try and install literally anything on it, it spikes to 100% usage and over 1000ms response time. Worked out it is a ssd issue not software so is this possible to fix or should I just consider it dead?

[@xxssdaddyxx]

You might recover the data but it won't be really reliable or usable on the long term

[@oluwapaul12]

Hello Sir, commenting from Nigeria. So my PC brought a blue screen while I was scanning it. To my greatest suprise after it restarted itself. It showed hard drive not found. On checking the drive on another PC. It not showing anymore. Please what do you suggest Sir. All my files and works from March 2023 is gone just like that. I never thought SSD drives would just crash or stop working just like that. Please any help from the author and comment section will be very much appreciated.

[@honahwikeepa2115]

My WD ssd was less than a year old when it died. Hope this helps me. 👏🏾👍🏾

[@Wakaraneeyo]

So am I correct to assume that you’re saying if I go into the BIOS menu, my m.2 drive will start an auto repair thing? Because I can’t access the BIOS menu when the drive is plugged in.

[@arayra728]

If that what's happening, Your ssd is beyond saving. Ur ssd is stopping the motherboard from post.

[@Wakaraneeyo]

@@arayra728 yeah my laptop doesn’t even recognize the ssd anymore. I’m saving up for a new one with more storage.

[@arayra728]

@@Wakaraneeyo aight good luck, maybe wait for the black Friday sale to get a good deal

[@Wakaraneeyo]

@@arayra728 oh true I totally could do that thanks for reminding me that Black Friday exists

[@TheRVSN]

Use Linux SW RAID (mdadm). I use two external drives over USB in a RAID1 (mirror) for archiving. Should any of the two drives fail, I remove failed drive from the RAID, buy another drive and add it to the RAID1, then sync data in the RAID.

[@limitless-hardware1866]

Yes for data security Raid 1 is the way to go. but thats not really the point of the video :D but still, good tip!

[@TheRVSN]

@voodooyam Backup solution is always built on top of storage solution. Backup has little value when written to unreliable storage.

[@REP_PER_X_CSG]

THANK YOU SOO MUCH THE 3:50 THIS IS WHERE I COULD FINALLY GET MY DRIVE TO FORMAT, MY DAD WAS MAD AT ME FOR BREAKING HIS DRIVE THX A LOT FOR HELPING ME FIX IT

[@prkacro]

according to your experience, which ssd would you recommend.. it seems to me that ssd are much more unstable than hdd.. thanks for the video.. greetings from Croatia!!

[@DragoNate]

I have never fixed a drive with this or any method, but I may try as I had an SSD commit self-not-exist and is no longer accessible. It is detected. Even partitions and amount of data can be detected on it. It just can't be accessed no matter what I try.

[@pcdoctor09]

Thank you so much for this info. You are awsome man.Love your good work. Thank you A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[@88BlueKeys4U]

So I tried my luck on my crappy Patriot P210, using an external SATA power supply with no data plug. The drive DOES draw power (monitored on an energy meter) when connected, probably may even do its internal magic and memory self-testing. With no LEDs these quiet suckers do not exhibit their internal lifelines at any time, hardly warm up at all. Yet the behavior after these 30-60min power cycles remains the same: if connecting it through any SATA/USB enclosure the drive does not respond on the bus, easily noticable by the control LED of external enclosures: they simply turn off after a few minutes, as they do not 'see' a living device on their SATA end; no communication, no life, no hope. I assume that the proposed power cycle may work in very specific failure modes (eg. data corruption, power drop etc). But if - as I suspect - the DATA interface is shot, no communication can occur at any time again, regardless of power or temperature cycling. Somewhere a guy with a thermal scope did some magic by watching for dead/shorted capacitors, simply removing them from the SATA controller board, and actually revived a dead SSD this way. Out of my league. Bummer, back to HDDs..

[@sentinel9933YT]

Its not working 😭.. Even I plugged only power cable for 1 hour.. still not working.. the SSD always crashes my system (data connected).. Even bios too.. .. but the drive letter still appears (uses USB adapter connect to windows).....

[@3A-nn4rb]

Well, i'll try this now. My pc don't even get in the post with my m2. But crystal disk recognized it via usb adapter and a old pc recognizes it too. I was able to backup my data, but i want to use it again.

[@TheFallOfNumenor14]

I have a question. My ssd is not dead, but I have trouble with 100% disk usage. Tried every fix I could find and nothing worked. Formatted and the problem is not fixed. Could this fix that problem?

[@luckyduckydrivingschool3615]

Do you have to let the computer sit in BIOS to do this? Or can you continue booting up the computer with an OS on another drive and just leave the SSD plugged into the power connector?

[@Machivl]

U can use Ur PC normaly the SSD need only Power, the Option With bios is that the Drive gets Power

[@kecosh2198]

Well done! Thanks V.M

[@xxDrain]

Interesting. Didn't know the power-cable-only thing. Trying it out now on a drive that just suddenly died on me and won't show up anywhere anymore.

[@Flowkeyz]

Did you manage to fix it that way?

[@xxDrain]

@@Flowkeyz nope, in my case it didnt do anything. Kept it hooked up to only the power cable for several hours several times, disconnecting for a while inbetween. Mine is just dead i guess.

[@mufmager]

Unfortunately for me it didnt work, I left my SSD power connected in my pc with bios for an hour and nothing Then with pc on just while using it normally and nothing Then connected it to a phone charger and left it overnight, and nothing as well. My SSD got fried or something?

[@leosouza1508]

M2 not showing in bios after bsod, and 3 weeks ago my gpu also died. Do you think this is coincidence? any chance maybe i have mobo or psu issues? Thx for vid btw

[@AA_MusicGuy1111]

How would you do the first part on a Mac? The boot to boot and leave just the power sata cable plugged in

[@nowthisisfuuun]

If you have an enclosure, connect it externally to an outlet

[@AA_MusicGuy1111]

What does that mean? I don't get it @@nowthisisfuuun

[@collared]

i had to reformat it for it to start working properly but i did manage to get some data off it before format. this data only thing really fixed it? thank you so so much

[@Ny-kelCameron]

I'm going to try your recommendation to leave my drive plugged in only into power to see if that can do some kind of repair to my ssd. It wasn't even two months of use, then it stopped working. I have a question though, so which is better to store data? Sure ssd are new and great, but from what I'm seeing depending on the brand there's a high failure rate with some ssd's. I have an old WD HDD drive that is still going strong. Are mechanical drives better for long term storage?

[@danielyohannes7447]

Ya use hdd for storing special files

[@alexanderr.539]

HDDs are MUCH better for long term storage and backups than any NAND-flash stuff. HDDs can easely store data on the shelf for decades (under normal environment conditions) without ever being plugged in for power. On the contrary, SSDs have pretty limited data retention times without power -- you can start losing your data after a year or so.

[@denizkendirci]

i have a ssd which i use as an external drive with a sata to usb connector case, it connects and shows the files when plugged for a second and disconnects immediately (not showing on diskpart etc afterwards). it's not the sata2usb adapter case or the cables or the laptop port, i checked it via different sata storage and it works. what could be the problem, ssd is kinda new, too, i bought it 6 months ago or so. i am a 30+ year pc user and i am good at troubleshooting at software side but i am not very versed at hardware side honestly. oh also, i tried the ssd on different laptops with different operating systems, same problem. and lastly, i connect the ssd to my laptops internally, i plugged out the sata hdd with linux inside, and i plugged in the ssd, it's not recognized in the bios, but i can see the damn files even though it's just for a second when i plugged it into windows externally.

[@Makxi89]

What if the NVME SSD is really hot when plugged, is it safe to leave it like that at least for 15 minutes?

[@KatarinaBohtana]

I'm looking for a separated SSD cable between power and data, I'm trying usb and if it doesn't work I need to find a similar cable that's just a short sata extension... my laptop does not separate the power and data outputs inside of it

[@jaraisz06]

I have an intel 535 series ssd 240gb and i instalet windows on it and in 1 hour i got blue screen sudenly , i tried to reinstal wintows but it shows that it has 0 GB :)) can this method work on it ?

[@gaetanoaloe6870]

Hi, I have a Samsung 860 NAND SSD. It doesn't work. (not recognized) .... can you tell me a laboratory that can recover the data??

[@thirdyonday8257]

Thank You!!!

[@Fe.Breezy]

Will the bios alert you to the scan status or just will you just reboot after 30-60 min?

[@limitless-hardware1866]

no since there is no data connection to the PC there wont be any notification. The scan will happen internally within the SSD itself.

[@Fe.Breezy]

@@limitless-hardware1866 thank you, that makes sense =)

[@limitless-hardware1866]

@@Fe.Breezy No worries, glad to help

[@julianogja]

Great ! ..Is it possible to recover an SSD that is not recognized by the BIOS, Windows, or Linux, due to a natural defect?

[@jahanzaib1017]

My liteon M2 sata 2260 ssd stop working due warm 🥵 up. Can it will be recovered?

[@jericho_bees]

C'mon from m my experience as an IT specialist ssd's are constantly dying. I've got old SATA drives about a decade old but lord alone knows how many times SSD's just decide to brick themselves.

[@AlexN274]

Stupid question, is it ok if i unplug it during the warm up process? I just got scared and unplug it when I notice warm up (external sata ssd)

[@strelok4902]

nice tips!!

[@patrickstarrr2953]

what should I do when i get the I/O error when trying to initialize the ssd? my kingston ssd does get recognised, but after trying to initialize the drive, I get the error and after that the drive suddenly isn't available. it does keep showing as unkown device, but the memory size disapears underneath it. does this mean the drive is dead or is there a way to fix this. seen that the drive does do the psu reset...do i need to rebuild the MBR?

[@Rjey45ForteFev]

So stock enclosure is busted, cause it's limited for fat32 or exfat.