Sudden SSD failure < 2 years old (help)

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I have a Sandisk Ultra 120gb SSD (link) that I have been using for 1 year and 9 months in my old netbook and my ultrabook.
Today, when I tried to boot my ultrabook, it did not boot but went straight into BIOS. When I went into the boot config, it did not show my SSD as a SATA connected drive.
I just tried plugging the suspect SSD into my desktop, but it is not showing up in explorer or partition manager.
There is not very much data I am worried about loosing, as most of my important stuff is on Dropbox, but I would like to recover this data if the drive cannot be fixed.

Thank you, Peter
 
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Unfortunately it will be very difficult to recover data from a failed SSD much more so compared to HDD. I would recommend to RMA.


but try this;

step1; Plug in the drive's SATA power cable ONLY
step2; Boot the Computer and wait 30 minutes
step3; Plug in the SATA data cable. (keep the computer on power)
step4; Reset Computer

If you do manage to make the SSD work again, immediately backup important data and update firmware, then secure erase the SSD.
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Unfortunately it will be very difficult to recover data from a failed SSD much more so compared to HDD. I would recommend to RMA.


but try this;

step1; Plug in the drive's SATA power cable ONLY
step2; Boot the Computer and wait 30 minutes
step3; Plug in the SATA data cable. (keep the computer on power)
step4; Reset Computer

If you do manage to make the SSD work again, immediately backup important data and update firmware, then secure erase the SSD.
 
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pe5er

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Thanks for your reply.

I cant seem to get anything at all out of the SSD, so RMA seems like the only option.

 
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Nope, no luck with this, thanks for the suggestion though.
 
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