My SSD Crasehd for the second time. I'm being charged $300 to recover data. I do get a free replacement. How do I recover the data?

300 to recover data is nothing if the ssd is completely crashed, take it if u have important stuff on it thats nowhere else to be found!

If its still able to connect by dock to other pc or just by sata, theres applications available that maybe could fix it

However, its strange that an mlc ssd breaks for u twice.

Might be voltage issues coming from ur psu bricking them

Yikes! So I need a new PSU? Tell me the science of this.

Probably not.

OCZ just makes crappy SSDs. Which a few will argue about, but is true, never the less.

There is a free program called Recuva, that MAY help you recover some data. In the future, make full OS image backups.




https://www.piriform.com/recuva

How does one do the OS image backups?

Thanks on Recuva.

I prefer photorec.

Not sure about recuva but photorec actually tells you how the software works and which file formats it recognizes and attempts to recover (over 480 spread across 300 file families).

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/File_Formats_Recovered_By_PhotoRec

It probably also works across more file systems (FAT, NTFS, ext2, ext3, ext4, probably reiser/zfs)

Edit:: Just read recuva's web page. It just uses buzzwords and doesn't actually tell you what it does.

This post was edited by AbDuCt on Jan 7 2017 12:16pm

Hire a professional if your data is important

You need some decent backup software like Acronis True Image, and somewhere to store the backups.

You can get a free version of Acronis here: https://support.wdc.com/product.aspx?ID=613&lang=en#WD_downloads


You will want the file called: Acronis True Image WD Edition Software


As for where to store the backup(s)...

You could use your storage hard drive, or an external hard drive...etc.
Backups are usually about 1/2 the size of w/e you have on your C: drive.




Windows also has it's own backup software. But Acronis, for example, is far better.

Whats the best rates for data recovery? Where? how do i know if they're legit?