How to fix a "dead" SSD for free | Reviving broken SSDs | No tools, no software, no money!

[Music] so we have come a long way in terms of storage from old hard drives that were slow and loud two now almost only using ssds well if you are like me and have a lot of data or well basically our Hardware like me you have some ssds or some other Hardware lying around and maybe even some defective or not working Hardware lying around such as ssds although they work much better and have a higher life expectancy than for example normal hard drive they also can fail and this is why I want to show you today how to fix a dead SSD or seemingly that SSD and get it back to life again no matter if it's the sale SSD or just an m.2 drive because you can also fix those if they are dead at like a 50 to 60 chance I say we'll start with normal SATA SSD so doesn't matter if it's an old sata 3 SATA 2 SSD whatever doesn't really matter you could also just be looking for your data on these because I don't know the SSD doesn't work anymore and you just need the data off of it although I must say this is not even if the drive starts to work again this may not work to recover your data all of the time because even if it the drive gets detected again you might still not be able to access your data and have to reformat your drive but we come we'll come to that later first of all what to do if your drive isn't shown anymore either in the Bios or in Windows obviously you could unplug it and plug it back in again as you would with it in general but the next thing would be well you have two connectors on the back one is for data the smaller one and one is for power power what you want to do is turn off your PC connect only the power cable so that the hard drive is powered up or SSD is powered up and then when the data power cable is connected start your PC and go into the BIOS stay in there for or rather just leave the PC on for like an hour or something normally it should take half an hour but I try to leave it on longer it doesn't really matter how long if it's at least like half an hour and the drive in itself when not connected to data will go through a repair cycle or a rather not repair cycle but also kind of a check cycle to check if some cells on the flash are dead and if there's something corrupted or whatever and the drive will fix itself so after half an hour or an hour or something you can reboot the PC plug in your setup cable again and start the PC again and then you can boot into windows and have a look if the drive is there or rather just have a look in the Bios you can also do that if the drive obviously isn't really recognized in Windows directly you can go through the drive manager as well because it may just appear as a raw partition then when there's data on there the data either has to be recovered by a program if you need the data or if you don't need it you can just format the drive and just use it normally if it doesn't work then you could try the same steps I told you before again two times if it doesn't work by the third try well the drive is probably dead but in 50 to 60 percent of cases this should work for ssds and I have fixed quite a few of them this way and my job as an a technician on a hardware retailer it was maybe three to four a week even because drives were selling quickly and there were some coming in and that was an easy way of fixing fixing them and not having to send them back to the manufacturer which was much easier for us to just try to fix them and give them back to the customer which did have it even their data on them again so that was a big plus the data coming or giving the customer the data back on m.2 drives it's a bit different because you can only plug them in well with data and power together although basically it's almost the same you also plug this drive into your m.2 slot but also don't boot into windows and just boot into the ufi the drive will also run through the same procedure as the SATA drives it might get warm some somewhat because it's running through its repair process which will use the drive quite a bit so don't worry if it gets warm or even a bit hot that's normal and on those it's the same thing if it doesn't work by the third try the drive is probably dead if that didn't work for rescuing your data obviously you could use some software to recover your data or give them to a recovery specialist if the data is really important to you because sometimes these data recovery tools break things even worse than they were before so if it's really really important police consider going to a specialist and lastly how to check your health of your SSD if if it has not died yet you can use crystal disk info for that there you will see any data that your drive has to offer about its longevity about its use or whatever it also tells you how much data has been written of the drive on the drive because ssds are limited with their right Cycles most of the time those are around 100 to 2 or 300 terabytes written so 300 terabytes are written to a drive and there they say that that's about the maximum of an SSD depending on also the flash it's going to use but that's a thing for a different video um you can see that what the limit of the the particular Drive is in the spec sheet but it's most of the time that high that it is not really an issue also most of the drives function longer than their tbw cycle so the terabytes written in general that's also a good tool for hard drives because hard drives tend to get slower over time and if you notice the hard drive being slow you can also look that up in the tool why that is and if it's fixable or if the hard drive should be exchanged for a different one a new one because it's dying soon same can it be set for ssds although ssds die very quickly so one time they are detected and on the next day they're not so yeah it's kind of random for those so I would always so always do a backup if you need your data that's basically everything I wanted to tell you about this and also because this is kind of a neat trick that not everybody does know and I feel a lot of people should know because data is important and not buying new hardware is also important so because you don't spend any money on it it's basically free stuff if or rather money saving in general so uh yeah I hope you like this video let me know in the comments how many drives you have fixed now or if you have any that have been fixed by this trick would be really interesting to know anyway I wish you a nice day and goodbye thank you foreign

Channel: Limitless-Hardware

Views: 128,387

Keywords: SSD, Hard drive, M.2, Sata, Fix, repair, Fixing, broken, Dead, defective, recognized, shown, BIOS, uefi, NVME, Motherboard, recovery, Data

Id: yTZ1dswQTXs

Length: 8min 49sec (529 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 23 2023