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    Samsung ATIV 9 M.2 SSD NGFF Data Extraction

    Discussion in 'Samsung' started by ChrisToePha, Nov 21, 2016.

  1. ChrisToePha

    ChrisToePha Notebook Consultant

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    So my sister about 2 months ago spilled water on her Samsung ATIV 9 and now I am trying to recover her documents off of her SSD. I tried to boot the laptop but it says there is an error and it needs to be reformatted. So I took out the M.2 SSD and put it in a bag of rice for 1 month now.

    I recently purchased this to put the SSD in there to extract files.

    https://www.amazon.com/ZTC-Enclosur...00KQ4LNJC/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

    So I put the SSD into the device I bought above and when I plug it in a blue light comes on and the computer detects the device but it is no where to be found. It just says "ATA/ATAPI Bridge", can be ejected but it's no where to be found on the drives only my current SSD that is installed on my laptop.

    Can anyone help me I am not sure if I have the right device or not and I have some really important documents I need to extract for school. Please anyone I am in desperate measures of help to get data off of this SSD.

    I just want to pull off word documents and powerpoints.
     
    ChrisToePha, Nov 21, 2016
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    I would expect that enclosure to work with the SSD. Can you confirm that neither Device Manager nor Disk Management show the SSD? Its absence suggests that it might have been damaged by the flood (although it should have been reasonably safe on the underside of the mainboard).

    The tests I can think of are (i) recheck if the BIOS in the ATIV 9 recognises the SSD (boot into BIOS Setup and it should list the hardware) - if the SSD is recognised then the problem may be enclosure as a dead SSD won't be recognised by the BIOS; (ii) borrow another M.2 SSD and try in the encosure to see if it is recognised; and (iii) temporarily put the Ativ 9's SSD into another computer which uses the M.2 slot to see if (a) it is recognises and then (b) if Windows tries to boot.

    There are specialist data recovery companies but they aren't cheap. Unfortunately, data loss is usually the only way that people learn that a backup strategy is worth having. Copy to flash drive, external HDD, cloud...

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Nov 22, 2016
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