I have a Kingston V+200 60GB ssd. It was working fine as the boot drive on my other pc and one day I went to turn it on and windows did not boot. The drive could not be found in the bios either. So I reset my bios and made sure the sata was on ahci. I switched sata ports and sata cables. Still nothing. I tried to plug the drive into my other pc and it was not detected by windows. I would like to keep my data on the ssd as there is important files and a legit windows 10 on it but if I can't keep my files then getting it to work is more important. Any ideas on what I can do?
SSD not showing up on windows or bios
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bjornl
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If it is not showing up in BIOS the disk is dead. SSDs are not long term drives. They are fast ones. Have you heard of the quote generally attributed to James Dean (although he apparently didn't say it) “Live fast, die young and leave a good-looking corpse!” That's sort of what SSDs do. They have gotten a little better with the newest enterprise grade ones (which cost an arm and a leg) but in general the old rotating disks.
Here is another semi-funny to help you remember a vital bit of info. Do you know why Jesus never lost any of his computer data? Well, everyone knows Jesus saves. A slightly mangled punch line from an old joke. The key point is the time to worry about backups and saved versions of keys and critical files is while the thing is still alive and not 5 minutes after it passes.
There are SSD recovery tools, but odds are very poor of getting your data back using them. I encourage you to try, just don't do't set your hopes to high. Some of them are destructive. Meaning that in order to try to get the disk back they typically modify the disk structure (logically not mechanically) this results in making actual data recovery far less likely to succeed. So use caution and use those tools only if your main goal is to get the media back not the contents of the disk.
If the main goal is to get your data back and you don't mind tossing the disk there is something else which can be tried. This is best done only by the extremely technical or a specialized data recovery service. Given that it seems the component which has died is your controller card itself, you can examine the card to see if it was just the solder joint on the SSD or power socket which cracked and can be re-soldered. Or unfortunately more likely for a drive which dies in an operating PC, it is most likely the controller itself. If you can track down an identical SSD (ideally from the same lot number with as close to consecutive serial numbers as possible) you can sacrifce both drives and remove the controller board from the good drive and see if this breaths some life in to the dead one... at least long enough to backup the data.
More expensive but more likely to get your data back is to send out the disk for data recovery. For a small amount of data as a 60gb HD this should be modest in price. I'd guess less than $1000, perhaps if you are lucky only a couple of hundred bucks. The only way to know for sure is to call one of them. There are several out there. Located in most countries. I've had to use them a few times (no I'm not that stubborn about not backing up, it was part of my job). They've gotten all or most of my data back around 2/3rds of the time.
If the data is only a license file or two, then don't waste your time or money. Just take this as an unpleasant life lesson. But new stuff and move on.
Either way, best of luck.
Here is another semi-funny to help you remember a vital bit of info. Do you know why Jesus never lost any of his computer data? Well, everyone knows Jesus saves. A slightly mangled punch line from an old joke. The key point is the time to worry about backups and saved versions of keys and critical files is while the thing is still alive and not 5 minutes after it passes.
There are SSD recovery tools, but odds are very poor of getting your data back using them. I encourage you to try, just don't do't set your hopes to high. Some of them are destructive. Meaning that in order to try to get the disk back they typically modify the disk structure (logically not mechanically) this results in making actual data recovery far less likely to succeed. So use caution and use those tools only if your main goal is to get the media back not the contents of the disk.
If the main goal is to get your data back and you don't mind tossing the disk there is something else which can be tried. This is best done only by the extremely technical or a specialized data recovery service. Given that it seems the component which has died is your controller card itself, you can examine the card to see if it was just the solder joint on the SSD or power socket which cracked and can be re-soldered. Or unfortunately more likely for a drive which dies in an operating PC, it is most likely the controller itself. If you can track down an identical SSD (ideally from the same lot number with as close to consecutive serial numbers as possible) you can sacrifce both drives and remove the controller board from the good drive and see if this breaths some life in to the dead one... at least long enough to backup the data.
More expensive but more likely to get your data back is to send out the disk for data recovery. For a small amount of data as a 60gb HD this should be modest in price. I'd guess less than $1000, perhaps if you are lucky only a couple of hundred bucks. The only way to know for sure is to call one of them. There are several out there. Located in most countries. I've had to use them a few times (no I'm not that stubborn about not backing up, it was part of my job). They've gotten all or most of my data back around 2/3rds of the time.
If the data is only a license file or two, then don't waste your time or money. Just take this as an unpleasant life lesson. But new stuff and move on.
Either way, best of luck.
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