How to fix a "dead" SSD for free | Reviving broken SSDs | No tools, no software, no money!
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2023
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In this video we will be showing you how to fix a broken SSD. At a chance of 50-60 Percent, its not guaranteed, but it may work and it doesnt cost you a penny. So why not?
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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 !
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
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 !
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
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.
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.
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
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 😕
@ 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.
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!!
How do you plug the drive into a phone charger? Is it and external SSD?
@@suwandicahyadi9213 Probably an external drive with USB connector.
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 😢
good luck wiith its reliability
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!
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 😢
@@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
Thank you so much for the great info.. my SSD working again...
Great to hear!
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 !
Glad it helped
@@limitless-hardware1866 didn't help for me😢
Can you use a HDD/SSD dock without the USB cable attached for the same procedure instead of mounting inside a PC?
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.
Hope u didnt pay much. Definetly got scammed
I am surprised that my SSD was not initialized. Your video helped me to get it working.
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
Well done! Thanks V.M
Are you plugging this drive up to another computer with a data transfer cable? Do you have a video showing the steps?
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!
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!
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 😢
What's RMAed?
@@rockgamerz201 as much as I want to help,since I'm having this problem,these are most likely bots.
@@JayScottee what if bots started to reply 😂 then we will call it ai
@@Butler-Aneke Return merchandise authorization, you need it most of the time to return items to a manufacturer.
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!!
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 🙂
Did it work?
@@Butler-Aneke No, and I really tried...I'm really sad now 😞
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
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
Thanks! I tried it on SSD SU650 240GB and it works again!
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 😢
@@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.
@@panklovatina3329 thanks for your time i understand now
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?
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
if the SSD is Deep Frozen Data like Every Restart Reverse the changed Data to the old one, is this problem can be
fixed?
nice tips!!
awesome it works with me 👌THANKS a MILLION 💖
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.
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 😢
@@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.
@@truelightseeker thanks for your time. i understand now
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?
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.
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.
@@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.
@@ElxCriiO any updates on this, as I do not have a power only cable
@@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
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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?
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 ?
My liteon M2 sata 2260 ssd stop working due warm 🥵 up. Can it will be recovered?
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.
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.
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 😅
@@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
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 😢
thank you very much , i bought a Sata SSD and it wasn't showing in my windows , the second part helped me
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?
Ya use hdd for storing special files
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.
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?
hmm thats wierd never had that issue. is there a possibility to reflash the firmware on that drive?
@@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.
Any updates?
@@krueed9349Unsuccessful so no longer trying. Decided to go with a different brand instead of SP going forward.
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.
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 !!!
Sadly this didn't work for my dead Samsung 860 Evo SSD.
Will the bios alert you to the scan status or just will you just reboot after 30-60 min?
no since there is no data connection to the PC there wont be any notification. The scan will happen internally within the SSD itself.
@@limitless-hardware1866 thank you, that makes sense =)
@@Fe.Breezy No worries, glad to help
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?
SAME here haha
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
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
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
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.
Hello Sir, Mine can only read but do not write. Is there hope for this?
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.
Thank You!!!
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??
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.
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!
Remember RAID it is for redundancy not for backup!
@@voodooyam Backup solution is always built on top of storage solution. Backup has little value when written to unreliable storage.
How would you do the first part on a Mac? The boot to boot and leave just the power sata cable plugged in
If you have an enclosure, connect it externally to an outlet
What does that mean? I don't get it
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Thank you so much for this info. You are awsome man.Love your good work. Thank you A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I have an Samsung 970eveplus 2 TB external showing 0 bites what would you recommend
thats something different, you could try the same thing though maybe it helps
Nice one😊
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.
is there any solution of write protected solution?
Can I make a Refragged SSD work as new again? Heard that was impossible.Would unplug the Data cable work?
what do you mean with refragged SSD exactly?
Is it being detected in bios/UEFI or not?
@@limitless-hardware1866 It starts allright,boot Bios then F1 I get to choose what C: to boot and it starts to boot and and boot to Log In screen and I have used Defrag on an SSD and that tends to destroy such a disk but it`s working saying it has 250mb storage or it has 5.35 gb storage or says 230 gb is full. Very bad capacity/or working incredibly slow. Wonder if disconnecting Datacable to the SSD will work to make it go into self reapair mode will work?
@@johankellgren3943 if formatting does not fix the disk id try it there is nothing to loose really
Thank you!!!!!
Question: Can i use it again after "fixing" it? It's the only ssd i currently have, I was planning to move OS to it but like 2 restart and frickin thing just died on me.
Personally,I wouldn't trust it for anything you don't want to lose,especially since SSD's are pretty cheap now.
Do not trust it, back up the files and keep that defective SSD away.
I need help, my m.2 will work fine on an old laptop but not on my new one.
Where can i purchase that ssd power harness adapter. I only have the one that is joined to the data connector too. Thanks
I found one in aliexpress
Temu sells it for $4
Guys need help, NVMe SSD is dead on Lenovo T14, connecting to another slot of another laptop does not even turn on the Laptop, any more thoughts would be really appreciated!
I have maxsun ssd 512 gb *6 i used it as a external hard drive it suddenly not showing up data but showing in disk management as a disk 1 un located and space shows 1 mb plz help me to find us important data plz
I do only have a cable that goes on to both ports at my ssd what should i do?
Connect it to the mobile charger, turn on the charger & leave it for a while.
is this also the case when magician applied the firmware to the wrong drive eg. my 970 evo + is seen as 990 Pro by the bios which is wrong. I found nothing on resetting the nvme's bios so far.
No you will have to install the correct firmware again
@@limitless-hardware1866 that's impossible, only my BIOS sees the drive (970 EVO) as 990 PRO.
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?
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.
Did you manage to fix it that way?
@@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.
About to try that now
Great ! Thanks for Sharing...
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 😢
I have a NEW sata SSD (netac cr4p brand), it recognized it the first time to create the file system, but after putting it in an old Laptop it didn't recognize it anywhere else. It doesn't recognize it in disk management or bios. I believe it's just a type of filesystem crash. Would there be any software to try to recognize, reset and rebuild the file system?
Perhaps you chose the newer GUID/GPT thing on the newer computer, instead of the older MBR? (Though, I thought filesystems are inside partitions -- the GUID/GPT/MBR would be perhaps more a partition table, but I'm not sure about the terminology.) Though, that shouldn't prevent the drive be detected in the BIOS, and probably even older disk management should be able to detect the disk but say it has something unknown on it. But if you make a wrong choice between the MBR and GUID/GPT, in worst case, if you don't find a more elegant solution, you could at least overwrite, say, the first megabyte in the drive with zeros (I've done it after booting to live linux off a flash drive and using "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda", or something like that -- you'd need to check the disk's address in that configuration; you can interrupt the copying after a few seconds with Control+C). After that, the drive would be detected as blank again next time you connect it and you can choose again. But if you do use the dd command to zero the disk, be sure to use the address of the correct disk, if the computer has multiple connected! Otherwise you'd be likely to wipe a wrong disk.
But your issue doesn't sound like that kind of one to me. Even if the contents are unrecognizable to the system, the drive itself should be detected. Has the computer been used with a SATA drive before (some laptops have slots for a 2.5" drive and for an M.2 drive, and they could have been equipped with either from the factory)? In that case, the other could have been disabled by default. Or, if the computer is _very_ old, the new drive might be too large, but I can't think of a computer with SATA connector that wouldn't support at least of severl-hundred-gigabyte drives.
@@enginerd80 Thanks for your reply and help.
I have carefully read your entire message, I will only complement with more information.
I sold that ssd and it came back this way a day later, it's just a 128gb ssd. I checked inside and the board is new and correct (compared with another one like it). I tested it on a pc (china xeon v3) with GPT. When I connect it, it takes a long time on the motherboard home screen (I believe it keeps trying to recognize the ssd but it doesn't recognize it). When I go into the bios it doesn't show up. Not in Windows Disk Manager either.
I also tested it on my old i5 1st gen laptop which is on mbr and it freezes on the acer home screen and doesn't even enter the bios. The ssd got hot. I also tried a usb/sata cable for 2.5 drivers, it turns on the ssd board led, but it doesn't heat up at all.
It's strange that it malfunctions so quickly, but it's possible.
As it is a new ssd, at least no important data was lost. But I'm still upset about losing money. It was only 16usd, but even so... it's a bit high when converting to my currency (Brazil). The time to open a dispute has long passed.
Someone gave theirs to me I've been using it months then my pc broke and i stopped used it for 2 year
A few weeks ago while i was cleaning my room and managing cable I decided start the pc and it works
Then i was so happy i decided to upgrade the ssd by putting it into my via sata cable instead of usb
It work once i restart a few time then it just disappeared
No scanning worked
I tried to do what is in this video but it didn't work either
Is my best option to send it for repair?
Do I just have to sit in the bios? Do I have to go to any specific part of the bios or does it not matter?
no doesnt matter. the SSD will just have to be powered and wil run through this process internally.
@@limitless-hardware1866 Alright, thanks. I’ve has this process running for 50 minutes, although it was on the “M.I.T.” section. Assuming I didn’t have to be in the BIOS section specifically?
@@phil3622 no doesnt matter really. as long as the pc is powered on. you wont see anything on screen as the drive is doing this process internally. and as said in the video i cant guarantee that it works, but it did for many people already.
@@limitless-hardware1866 alright, thanks. anyways I’ve done the waiting part, with the drive disconnected (from sata) and after the time passed turned the pc off, plugged sata back in, turned my pc back on and went into the bios again and there is still no sign of the SSD drive. I now suspect it is dead after I was gaming lightly (playing a game installed on the SSD) and then there was a full power cut in my house due to a storm in the area. I woke up the next morning (this morning) and this problem arised. This hasn’t worked, so I’m assuming its dead. £150 down the drain I assume
@@phil3622 yeah could be possible as i said you may have some luck trying it again maybe for even up to two hours, but if that does not work, the drive is probably dead.
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
good u broke it physically but not mentally
Have you ever tried "baking" any?
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.
@@lurch789lol
putting them in a bowl of rice works better than this video suggests.
Is it crucial I be in the bios? If I have a spare sata connection can I just connect it there without connecting the data transfer cable? Or has anyone tried this?
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.
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.
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 😢
If my M.2 failed
Can I fix it ?
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.
Why do I have to sit and wait for my computer to be in the BIOS for the whole hour? If it's only power cable that matters - I can turn my PC on as usual, do something useful for an hour, then turn it off, connect the data cable and turn it on? Will it have the same effect?
if your computer have only 1 ssd, how you will do something usefull? =)
If so then yes, but the point is - if it’s only power cable that matters than I don’t need to sit in bios - I can boot Ubuntu and do something useful - like read on the internet how to disassemble SSD and make a DIY project of its parts…
@@zholud or you can read "why this 'fix' in this video will not fix anything".. ahahah
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.
Thanks for this lifehack man, it fixed the problem(disc wasn't visible in bios and in windows) and now my SSD works fine!
Chrystal disc info shows that the disc is 100% good, should i trust it?
I doubt that i will be able to return the ssd disc now, since it works.
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 😢
@@rockgamerz201 i did just what is told in the video - 1. plug power cable to ssd without data cable 2. turn on pc and load to bios 3. leave ssd connected to power and bios on screen for a few hours. After that turn off pc, plug data cable to ssd and load normaly to windows. If ssd is fixed it should be visible
@@evgheniiturco9268 thanks for your time i understand now
could this fix (satafirm s11 kingstone 240 drive failure) ?
in theory might be able to revive any ssd. just try it, it wont hurt and doesnt take much effort
unfortunately not, s11 need a loader and translator built with PC3000 or MRT
How can I do this on mac m1?
Couldnt you just buy and external ssd case and plug it into a wall charger for the NVMe or M.2 SSD?
Not sure, never tried it, but might be possible.
ill give it a try and ill inform u the result soon
@@hujanpanas1604 Have you tried? I am wondering too if this solution is possible. I have an M.2 in an external case and it suddenly died. Nothing is showing up. The light on the SSD just keeps flashing, and the PC is getting super non-responsive, as long as the M.2 is plugged in. Nothing else happening. So I would like to perform this power cycling too. Wondering if I could just use a wall charger to plug the M.2 case in.
@@paulringel3291 i have the same exact situation with my ssd, but i dont have the power only cable so i use the usual cable to charge via my phone power brick for about an hour.. Sadly nothing happens.maybe i have nade mistakes
How can I boot up to UEFI if the NVME SSD I'm trying to restore/repair has the OS? My motherboard, gigabyte h410m h v3, doesn't detect my SSD if I happen to not use it for over a week. SSD's health is 95% on crystaldisk. Non detection happens rarely but when it does it takes me a couple of hours to make it work by cleaning and reseating the SSD. It happened again today after I came back from a week long trip and I need help in fixing it the right and quick way, so I can go back working/gaming. I have a kingston nv1 m.2 nvme ssd. Will it do the repair thing if I booted in to the BIOS since I think I can't boot to a UEFI? TIA
it doesnt matter the uefi isnt stored on the ssd and also as i said in the video the ssd needs power ONLY for the restore process.
@@limitless-hardware1866 I'll try covering the data connectors then. It didn't worked maybe because i didn't bother to cover the data connectors. But just wanna understand this full once I turn it on how do I boot to uefi? The only 3 options I have is boot menu, bios/q flash and q flash. Sorry for my newbie question. Cause what I did is boot to easy mode/bios menu, except i plug in the ssd with both data and power connections which I will retry the correct way of only having the power connection. Just need the booting thing clear. Thanks for responding as well brother.
@@limitless-hardware1866 disregard my previous clarification, just need one tiny question. After the power only duration do I need to let it rest a bit or just connect the data fin and boot it while it's warm?
@@sycringe5852 no only let the pc run for about 1-1.5 hours with only power to the drive and then shut off the pc reconnect data and reboot
@@limitless-hardware1866 mine works now. Thanks for the tips
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.
when i connect my ssd via usb or inside the laptop the laptop disk manager and bios does not make and sound and don't detect it at all but the cable shows blue light and ssd shows green light but what ever i try it doesn't work please help,,,,
Try the fix, i explained in the video, maybe it helps.
my ssd is 1 month old and not working,,, do you think it will be fixed?,,, i need to find the power cable before i try the solution
@@limitless-hardware1866 i tried it multiple times,,, it was reading the first time and it was installing an app or driver for the ssd or something like that then didn't want to work,,,, and i tried the bios for three times after that and still won't work and won't try to install driver or something like that
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.
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! 👍
@@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.👍
@@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.
I hope this works, my m.2 drive isnt dead at all it works fine 1000% on the old acer laptop, just won't work on my lenovo
Thank you
Thanks for the help, but sadly it didn't work for me
Does this work for external HDD's as well?
It will not work for hard drives
I have a Sata SSD WD Blue 1 tb nano solid state drive lock with password have forget my password how can recovery it? Too resetting it I can use again can you help my ??
You will probably be only able to use the drive if you format it
I think I have format it the ssd still I get warning for a password can I use it ssd or must i throw it away! Or try something Els?
@@Charm.1 you could try to delete everything on the drive with diskpart.
in windows use Command prompt
Type in diskpart
then list disk
then select the disk you want with Disk 1 or 2 or whatwver
then clean
then any partitions should be erased and you will have to set up the disk again using the disk management in windows
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!
Any luck with the recovery?
@@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
@@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.
@@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
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..
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...