radioman Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 Hi from the UK. I have a Corsair 120GB Force 3 SSD which is not even 6 months old. I use it as a data (ie not a system) drive. A couple of days ago it seems to have developed a fault whereby nothing recognises it. I have tried it now on two separate PCs, and have connected directly using a SATA cable directly and through a USB caddy. I can confirm the drive is getting power. The drive is not being recognised by Windows at all, not in system devices and not in disk management. Therefore it's not appearing in Explorer either. That means I cannot run any kind of tool to examine the state of the drive. So it looks like a failure. Has this kind of failure occurred before (I imagine it has) and is there anything I can do, as an end user? If not, can I do anything to recover the data that is on it? I have a fairly recent - but not complete - backup, so would appreciate guidance on what I might do to recover it. I don't want to lose any of the contents if I can help it, but I appreciate it may be too late for that, and I should have had a full backup made. This is a is slightly annoying problem - I moved to the SSD in the hope that it would be more robust than the mechanical hard drive it replaced... none of which have actually never failed on me! Thanks in advance. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted December 10, 2012 Share Posted December 10, 2012 Is the drive detected in the BIOS? If yes, Run Parted Magic and see if you can access the drive. If no, there isn't a lot of things you can do to recover the data on the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted December 10, 2012 Author Share Posted December 10, 2012 No, not detected in the BIOS. In fact if the drive is plugged in the whole POST process takes minutes rather than seconds. I suspect the controller on the drive has died... so there's nothing to be done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 There isn't much you can do to recover the data if the drive isn't detected in the BIOS. Request an RMA to replace the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted December 11, 2012 Author Share Posted December 11, 2012 Ok, there's nothing I can do... what chance of success might a data recovery firm have? As I said I have a fairly recent backup, but if it's possible to get it all recovered, and won't cost too much, I'd consider that. What likelihood is there of getting an RMA after it's been through a data recovery process? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toasted Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Recovering data off flash media devices is a difficult task or next to impossible. With the dead controller, there is really no chance in data recovery as the controller knows where the data is. Replacing the controller won't help as it will only ask you to format the drive or it either overwrites the data on the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted December 19, 2012 Author Share Posted December 19, 2012 Ok, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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