Unfortunately my VP4300 Lite 2TB bought on this forum, stopped showing on my PC and has likely died today. Used it as a gaming drive with OS on my other SN580 ssd. I was experiencing crashes yesterday all of a sudden and thought it was due to recent gpu driver update. Opened steam today and it showed “error performing inpage operations”. Checked crystal disk and couldn’t find the ssd. Had checked crystal disk almost a week ago and the health was 100%, temps never crossed 55 and the drive ran cooler than my sn580. Had nearly 1TB of data on that drive, if someone can help me get the device back running or some other suggestions I’ll be hugely thankful. Would be happy even if the data can be recovered somehow.
I’ve tried using it on another system, the nvme slot is working fine have tested another ssd in that, BIOS POST takes a lot of time when the faulty ssd is connected with the CPU and VGA LED on bios being on during the entire POST, this didnt happen when I connected the other ssd for testing.
Did you happen to check its health in any disk monitoring tools recently?
Try it on someone elses pc and see if it gets detected. Try on a external casing via usb.
If the ssd fails to get detected by any means you have to resort to those data labs for data recovery. Thats the only hope..
The health was 100 almost a week ago. Have tried it in my laptop and it doesn’t show up. Will try it with an nvme enclosure.
Try recovery software r-studio r-undelete. If its hardware issue, then better consult professionals.
So I checked storage controllers under device manager and i see a warning sign over standard nvm express controller which shows the following error “Code 10: an i/o adapter hardware error has occurred”. I am afraid its a hardware error and beyond my scope now. Gpt says so too.
SSD always fail suddenly with no indication of deteriorating health in any S.M.A.R.T. parameters unlike hdd. That is why many ppl prefer hdd for long term/large data storage or run ssd with always enabled real time backup on another drive.
Even for professionals, recovering data from ssd is 10 times more difficult than hdd & in many cases isn’t even possible.
If the data is important, then I’d suggest you look for data recovery.
From what I know, if the memory chip is fine, then you can still recover by using donor drive and swapping components.
I had my ssd die and system wouldn’t boot with the ssd attached. Loading forever.
If you ever find a good service, share your experience. It will be helpful in the future.
The drive mostly contained games and some datasets for my ML projects which I can re-download, so will probably not go for data recovery as the costs are too high and I can get new SSD’s in that range.
That typically works for HDDs, not SSDs.
Update: I was able to make the drive work through an external enclosure, a quick chat with gpt and an old reply from @TechnologyHell helped me make my mind to buy an external enclosure as a last ditch effort. Plugged the drive using the enclosure today and the device didnt show up in explorer but showed up in windows diskpart functionality, then used windows partition manager to format the drive and reallocate all space on the drive as the device was unaccessible otherwise. After allocating space the drive showed up in crystaldisk with full health but with some media and data integrity error counts populated which werent there before. Just to clarify I had checked both diskpart and windows partition manager earlier too when the device was connected through nvme slot and was not working and it wasnt showing up in both of those. Unfortunately I couldnt salvage any data.
Good to know but I wouldn’t suggest to use this drive for anything important as of now. Use it as external drive/internal drive for non-important data & get another ssd in Prime day sale(amazon)/Goat sale(flipkart) starting tomorrow (for plus/prime members).
Try partition recovery tools if you are keen to recover some data.
Update on the drive: Seller got a bill issued in my name as the drive was still in seller warranty. Tried to contact AnandIT infotech which are the official importers of patriot product in India and they did not respond so contacted patriot support and they accepted the bill and RMA but told me to ship the drive to Taiwan. Sent out detailed steps to ship them the drive which I did through India post which cost around 1k. My new drive was dispatched within a week and reached India in 2-3 days where our customs took their sweet time with the parcel and slapped 1k duty on it. Overall satisfactory experience with Patriot’s RMA.
Good to hear that it all ended well for you. Congrats on your new drive.