Was showing up in testdisk/photorec as the SATAFIRM S11, for which I found references to drives being relabelled as 'phison' somehow. Wonder if they know what the fault is, because they asked me for the specific type/batch of that drive. Many reports of firmware failures online, with some Russian recovery software available but not for data, just to restore the drive. Kingston 240 GB SSD ASMT2105 - RMA'd with Kingston and they exchanged, no questions asked, keep the old drive. Recuva on win10 laptop, nothing found except the same volume from mountvol.ĭdrescue image of the drive, 240GB in sizeĭMDE - the image did scan OK, but nothing found, the original drive itself didn't scan, halting at 61448 asking for retry/ignore/abort etc.

Slightly concerned chkdsk wrote something to the drive, but didn't output that it had anywhere, I just read somewhere that it can do (after I did it). Not sure how that happened as I ran Debian/grub on the drive, but could be from previous use. Gparted partition recovery - not possibleĮ2fsck superblock recovery listing and using as starting pointĬhkdsk from a win10 laptop, chkdsk E: /F /R iirc as well as mountvol if that's the right command - only mountvol showed what appeared to be boot partition full of win files. Photorec (no partitions show up, but the drive can be selected and scanned - to no avail) Testdisk (no partitions, error no endmark 0xAA55 hang at 0% scan, 3/29184) Here's a rough list of what I've run through from my notes of a couple of weeks back: I can't seem to find anyone with a similar SSD issue anywhere online, so I figured someone here might have come across this before. I tried to do it all in read-only, and tried working on the image, but with I/O errors it has been tough. I've tried a lot of stuff since and actually nothing has worked. My main work was saved/on a different disk, thankfully, so this hasn't been a 'pay anything for recovery' situation, but I figured I could still retrieve the data from a different/new system and that it was useful enough to keep trying. I had a disk failure before getting around to backing up a lot of notes and configs, updated pw file etc.

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