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WD Green SSD (240GB) not recognized

Posted: August 3rd, 2026, 7:00
by Elieder
Hello!
I work at A university and they are replacing some faulty SSDs from WD. There is a lot of them, 55 to be exact. They are not recognized in BIOS, but if I short JP1, they are shown as Sandisk Milpitas, and lsblk gives me a 16Kb partition (maybe just the firmware controller). Is there something I can try to revive them?

Re: WD Green SSD (240GB) not recognized

Posted: August 3rd, 2026, 7:06
by Lukas
You can try to recover your data via ChipOff using Flash Extractor or VNR Rusolut, however, none of the tools have official support for this version of the controller.:
https://flash-extractor.com/library/San ... 2-00469-2/
https://support.rusolut.com/portal/en/k ... ata-faster

Re: WD Green SSD (240GB) not recognized

Posted: August 3rd, 2026, 9:07
by martyjelen
Lukas wrote:You can try to recover your data via ChipOff using Flash Extractor or VNR Rusolut, however, none of the tools have official support for this version of the controller.:
https://flash-extractor.com/library/San ... 2-00469-2/
https://support.rusolut.com/portal/en/k ... ata-faster


No, this model is not supported by any tool. Only 20-82-00469 controller is supported.

Re: WD Green SSD (240GB) not recognized

Posted: August 3rd, 2026, 9:14
by Lukas
martyjelen wrote:No, this model is not supported by any tool. Only 20-82-00469 controller is supported.

Lukas wrote:however, none of the tools have official support for this version of the controller

I wrote that version A101-00125-B0 has no official support, which does not mean that someone who knows how to use the above tools is not able to recover data from it.