I have a Lenovo laptop which had 256GB WD SN730 drive installed. Once morning when I turned on the laptop, "Boot device failed" appeared on screen and upon checking the BIOS, it was not detected.

I opened the bottom cover and touched the SSD, and it was hot near the connecter, specifically near capacitors and some part of the chip.



One of the capacitors has a corner greyed out, that is short, using Diode mode, along with several other (at lease 4) capacitors along the square chip. I suspect the short (blown) capacitor is causing short in others as well. Marked with red dot on capacitors with confirmed short.



How can I go about making sure it works even for 30 minutes to recover my data; it has family pictures/videos. Is that known fault in line with other WD SSDs?

Update: The capacitor circled in this picture was shorted to ground, removing it solved the problem and I was able to recover the drive and data.

Nice job!!!!

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