Boy am I ticked.

[Ultimo]

Well, holy old crap.  My SSD crashed... AGAIN... and my tech guy tells me he can't recover ANYTHING from it.  All my photos, videos, writings, favourites, game data, including ALL my AE information, character costumes and such, EVERYTHING is lost.

 

SO ticked off.

 

Anyone know a good way to salvage stuff from a crashed SSD?

[Techwright]

5 hours ago, Ultimo said:

Well, holy old crap.  My SSD crashed... AGAIN... and my tech guy tells me he can't recover ANYTHING from it.  All my photos, videos, writings, favourites, game data, including ALL my AE information, character costumes and such, EVERYTHING is lost.

 

SO ticked off.

 

Anyone know a good way to salvage stuff from a crashed SSD?

 

"Good" is a matter of opinion, in this case. While there may be a better way out there, the only two methods I know involve removing/adding components to the SSD.  That's more than a bit involved.  This video discusses the two in regards to a specific SSD type:  

 

 

Not knocking what you've done, but in my experience as a lowly desktop support tech, I've learned to distrust SSDs.  SSD failure is not as much of a problem at places of work, where corporate practice requires employees to never save anything to a local drive, but on the home front, I've gone to using SSD for the operating system only, and magnetic drives for anything involving hard to replace data.  While each style of drive has a breaking point, there's a chance with magnetic disks of getting them to run one more time to pull data.   I'm also a big proponent of another external drive used as a backup drive, unplugging it from the computer when not in specific backup/restoration use.

[Troo]

5 hours ago, Ultimo said:

Anyone know a good way to salvage stuff from a crashed SSD?

 

oof a SSD..

 

with a harddrive that has or is failing; removing the drive and FREEZING it then put it back and start the computer can and has provided me the time to copy what I could. Not sure that will help a SSD.

[Ultimo]

39 minutes ago, Techwright said:

 

"Good" is a matter of opinion, in this case. While there may be a better way out there, the only two methods I know involve removing/adding components to the SSD.  That's more than a bit involved.  This video discusses the two in regards to a specific SSD type:  

 

 

Not knocking what you've done, but in my experience as a lowly desktop support tech, I've learned to distrust SSDs.  SSD failure is not as much of a problem at places of work, where corporate practice requires employees to never save anything to a local drive, but on the home front, I've gone to using SSD for the operating system only, and magnetic drives for anything involving hard to replace data.  While each style of drive has a breaking point, there's a chance with magnetic disks of getting them to run one more time to pull data.   I'm also a big proponent of another external drive used as a backup drive, unplugging it from the computer when not in specific backup/restoration use.

I've seen videos of guys doing that kind of work... it's really cool to watch, actually.  Unfortunately, that kind of service costs THOUSANDS of dollars, and I can't afford that, especially since I've been off work with a back injury for three weeks now.  No income, you know.

 

My best shot seems to be what my brother suggested.  He works for Stantec, and their tech guys are some of the best anywhere, and might have tools available to them that neither I nor the shop guy I took the PC to has access to.  But, that means paying for a new drive.  I have warranty, but that means sending the old drive to the manufacturer, which means NO chance of recovering anything.

 

There's stuff on there I hate to lose, but I know I can get back, either because it's not terribly important (eg. the AE stuff... I can recreate most of it without TOO much trouble).  It's the artwork I've done, the writing I've done.  Website addresses I won't be able to remember, and will likely never find again.  Screenshots over a decade old.  Music files.  Photographs (including my now-deceased aunt and uncle's last trip to Canada), and video files.  My THESIS work will have to be redone, AGAIN (this is the THIRD time... the first time happened when my old PC AND the backup drive AND the USB backup all crashed at the same time).  I did have a copy on my laptop, but I hadn't updated that in over a year... and the laptop often refuses to start, too.  I can't even remember what all is on there that will need to be replaced.  I'm also worried about private stuff, like passwords and banking info.

 

It's beyond frustrating.

 

 

Oh, and it's injury added to injury.  Late last year, my parents had a fire in their house, and a cleaning company had to be called to clean up everything from the smoke damage.  They cleaned EVERYTHING, including all my old toys and games and models that I made as a kid.  Irreplaceable stuff, most of it, brought in from Britain... old 1st edition Star Trek models and toys, Space 1999, Star Wars... all kinds of stuff.  Hundreds of pewter Warhammer miniatures.

They smashed EVERYTHING.  Even stuff that was stored in boxes packed in foam was taken out and broken.  I can repair most of it, but the ONE custom piece I made myself was broken off and lost.  I'll never be able to replace it, it was unique... and it's the principle of the thing.  My mother even told them to be extra careful.  A lot of good that did.

 

All my childhood memories smashed and destroyed.

My phone died.

Laptop died.

Now the PC has died and taken YEARS of stuff with it.

All while I'm out of work with a bad back.

SHIT HAPPENS IN PILES.

 

(Sorry, needed to vent a bit there.)