- Aug 6, 2018
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Hello everybody, I'm Virginia.
I'm trying to help my boyfriend with some work data he lost.
He had an ADATA SDD SP550 drive working perfectly for no more than a year as the sole drive on a Windows 7 laptop until stopped booting showing only a black screen two days ago.
I advised him to get the SSD after losing a HDD witth all of his data on it.
Unfortunatelly, he never uploaded to the cloud his back-ups and only left them in a separated NTFS partition in the HD.
The BIOS would still see the disk.
The Recovery Disk of Windows would NOT see it.
Diskpart would not list any HD on that machine.
I took it out of the laptop and connected it to my desktop (Windows 7) using an USB to SATA adaptor that is my regular Go-To when trying to to recover data.
The computer would see it sometimes as a drive and would allow me to see the drive, partitions, folders and even files BUT, I cannot copy any of them out. Errors given vary from "File Not Found" in Windows to "The semaphore timeout period has expired." in DOS.
I tried re-writing the MBR using AOMEI Partition Assistant but that didn't change anything. When I tried to use the Partition Recovery Wizard on the drive, AOMEI stopped responding.
I tried RecoverMyFiles and it took him a long time (one hour or so) to be able to read each partition and when I finally selected the partition I wanted to search in for his valuables files, it worked for a long time but stopped responding. I tried contacting the manufacturer (GetData) but they were not available. I am willing to buy the software but if it can recover something...
I would like to create an image of this piece of crap before it gets further corrupted but ForensicImager tells me that my available 600 GB on main drive of my laptop is not enough to contain the image of a 123 GB partition. The total size of the drive is 240 GB so, I don't know what the heck is going on here either.
I would like first to understand what could be wrong with the drive to pursue the right course of action instead of just wasting time.
I don't know how to use a disk editor but I wonder if that could help my case.
I tried peeking at DMDE and when I select the disk it says: "LBA:0 (try 0) WinError 2 The system cannot find the file specified." I can click the button "Ignore" ("Ignore All" is grayed out) and I clicked it many times up to LBA: 4xx to 500 but I decided to abort.
If anybody could give me some pointers, I would relly appreciate it.
Thank you,
Virginia
I'm trying to help my boyfriend with some work data he lost.
He had an ADATA SDD SP550 drive working perfectly for no more than a year as the sole drive on a Windows 7 laptop until stopped booting showing only a black screen two days ago.
I advised him to get the SSD after losing a HDD witth all of his data on it.
Unfortunatelly, he never uploaded to the cloud his back-ups and only left them in a separated NTFS partition in the HD.
The BIOS would still see the disk.
The Recovery Disk of Windows would NOT see it.
Diskpart would not list any HD on that machine.
I took it out of the laptop and connected it to my desktop (Windows 7) using an USB to SATA adaptor that is my regular Go-To when trying to to recover data.
The computer would see it sometimes as a drive and would allow me to see the drive, partitions, folders and even files BUT, I cannot copy any of them out. Errors given vary from "File Not Found" in Windows to "The semaphore timeout period has expired." in DOS.
I tried re-writing the MBR using AOMEI Partition Assistant but that didn't change anything. When I tried to use the Partition Recovery Wizard on the drive, AOMEI stopped responding.
I tried RecoverMyFiles and it took him a long time (one hour or so) to be able to read each partition and when I finally selected the partition I wanted to search in for his valuables files, it worked for a long time but stopped responding. I tried contacting the manufacturer (GetData) but they were not available. I am willing to buy the software but if it can recover something...
I would like to create an image of this piece of crap before it gets further corrupted but ForensicImager tells me that my available 600 GB on main drive of my laptop is not enough to contain the image of a 123 GB partition. The total size of the drive is 240 GB so, I don't know what the heck is going on here either.
I would like first to understand what could be wrong with the drive to pursue the right course of action instead of just wasting time.
I don't know how to use a disk editor but I wonder if that could help my case.
I tried peeking at DMDE and when I select the disk it says: "LBA:0 (try 0) WinError 2 The system cannot find the file specified." I can click the button "Ignore" ("Ignore All" is grayed out) and I clicked it many times up to LBA: 4xx to 500 but I decided to abort.
If anybody could give me some pointers, I would relly appreciate it.
Thank you,
Virginia
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