SSD no data

[johnrobert]

Kingston 240 SSD Windows 10

Windows will not see it says must format, tried to mount it in Linux same thing.
He told me to go ahead and format but I feel bad because I sold him the SSD and he has years of pictures

This is what it shows in Windows notice it says RAW I guess this is the downside to an SSD.

 

[lcoughey]

Get a clone of it, if you can. If the NAND is starting to fail, the window of opportunity may be short. If you run into issues, send to a data recovery professional.

 

[Joep]

Kingston 240 SSD Windows 10

Windows will not see it says must format, tried to mount it in Linux same thing.
He told me to go ahead and format but I feel bad because I sold him the SSD and he has years of pictures

This is what it shows in Windows notice it says RAW I guess this is the downside to an SSD.

Happens on spinners too, RAW is a simply a catch all placeholder for any type of situation where Windows can't determine the file system.
Anyway, as Luke says safest option is to send it someone like Luke. If this is a logical issue you're probably looking at just a few $100. Second best thing is to image/clone it and run file recovery software against the clone or image file.

 

[johnrobert]

After cloning I ran R- Studio took a couple of hours to scan, it found a load of nothing.

Thanks

 

[Joep]

Assuming it was originally formatted NTFS you shouldn't need hours to scan. What are you scanning, the entire (imaged) physical disk or just that RAW partition? On the map, R-Studio found no data fragments or known types or whatever it calls it, or any file system components?

Did you enable RAW scan too, it should pick up pictures then even if the file system itself is a mess. What type of photos he had on there, do you know?

I guess you can try with for example GetDataBack and see if that detects data.

If not then the sad news probably is it's an issue below the file system level, so the translation the SSD does itself.

 

[lcoughey]

Don't bother reformatting and reusing the SSD. It is better to replace it and set the original aside to make sure the user doesn't change his mind. The odds are, it won't format anyway, but if it does, it will likely fail again.

 

[johnrobert]

I thought same, put a new one in just in case
no telling what he did to it, still, feel bad as I sold it to him about a year ago not necessarily the fault of the SSD, but he did have a lot of trouble with it having his PST file corrupted all the time