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| Author: | drrecovery [ April 2nd, 2023, 14:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Apple SSD Recovery Options |
Hey everyone, I’m working on trying to recover a failing Apple SSD drive. This drive is the 12+16 pin, from ~2013-2015. Symptoms/What I’ve tried: - After attaching the drive to my iMac, it will disconnect on its own after a couple minutes. - If I am quick, I can navigate the file system a couple of folders deep before Finder locks up, and the drive eventually disappears. - If I try to use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the disk once it has mounted, my iMac will lock up and crash. - I can boot into Recovery Mode from the drive, but as soon as I try to access the file system via Terminal, it will lock up and disappear. I have run First Aid on the drive from Recovery Mode and it checks out fine. I’ve also mounted it on a Windows system and tested the drive with a couple of other utilities and I am not getting any sector errors or anything reporting back. - If I mount it on my PC (using MacDrive), the data partition doesn’t every show up (only an “Update” partition). It will similarly disappear after a couple minutes. - A coworker suggested I attempt to duplicate, disk-to-disk, so I purchased a Tableau TD2u duplicator and attempted this (using the USB interface while both source and target drives were in an enclosure), but it fails after 2 minutes or less when the source drive disappears. The error that comes back is simply “unexpected error occurred” or the like. I’m at a loss as to what to do next. Any suggestions on how to find out what component on the drive is failing? Thanks in advance! |
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| Author: | Arch Stanton [ April 3rd, 2023, 4:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Apple SSD Recovery Options |
Send it to a data recovery lab? |
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| Author: | fzabkar [ April 3rd, 2023, 13:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Apple SSD Recovery Options |
Can you start by retrieving a SMART report with a tool such as CrystalDiskInfo or GSmartControl? |
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| Author: | crackz0r [ April 3rd, 2023, 15:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Apple SSD Recovery Options |
You said you've tried to clone the drive with a TD2u. Does the drive get hot during the process? Sort of sounding to me like a possible over-heating issue if it is getting extremely hot to the touch. |
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| Author: | drrecovery [ April 4th, 2023, 10:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Apple SSD Recovery Options |
crackz0r wrote: You said you've tried to clone the drive with a TD2u. Does the drive get hot during the process? Sort of sounding to me like a possible over-heating issue if it is getting extremely hot to the touch. Not particularly hot, though I am wondering if it overheated at some point because the laptop was full of dust + had a non-working fan. |
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| Author: | drrecovery [ April 4th, 2023, 10:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Apple SSD Recovery Options |
Arch Stanton wrote: Send it to a data recovery lab? Might be the only option, but I’m here to see if there are any other suggestions/things I may have missed that I can try first. |
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