Hi everyone.
3 years ago my laptop shut down (dead battery) and never turned on again. The SSD drive died. For a long time I tried to do something, but nothing helped. Sent to service in Ukraine, they did all sorts of manipulations, but skhynix died. Backing up the disk is impossible, winhex hangs, everything is broken and takes a long time to load. Master tried to use a donor, also to no avail. Are there any labs in the world that work with skhynix and have successful cases? Please advise, I want to send them this dead guy.....

Hi alex1m,

When a drive hangs WinHex, fails to image, and drops controller responsiveness like that, it usually points to one of two major issues common with SK Hynix SATA/NVMe SSDs:

Firmware / Translator Corruption: The NAND flash chips might actually be physically healthy, but the internal controller has crashed into ROM mode due to a corrupted translator or damaged firmware modules. Standard PC-3000 or software imaging hangs because the controller loops endlessly trying to read damaged service tracks.

Controller or Power Rail Short: A fried PMIC (Power Management IC) or internal short on the SSD controller can prevent proper initialization, causing the drive to drop offline or freeze data lines.

For specialized recovery on SK Hynix controllers, traditional data recovery tools often need specialized utility commands to bypass the controller and read the NAND chips directly using flash-extractor tools (like PC-3000 Flash or Rusolut Visual NAND Reconstructor) if chip-off is supported for that specific controller architecture.

Hope you find a lab with the right hardware tools to recover the data!