Extracting information from nonworking solid-state drives
Extracting information from nonworking solid-state drives
You're facing a tough situation with your failing SSD. It's read-only and not writable, which makes recovery tricky. You've explored paid tools like EaseUS and Minitool, but they either cost too much or don’t work well. Recuva only partially recovered the data. Since you’re on a tight budget and need a solution without spending more than a few hundred dollars, there might be free or low-cost options worth checking—like specialized recovery software or community forums that share tips.
Completed the process, but only accessed around 200GB out of the total 2TB. The files are organized in hundreds of folders labeled from "recup_dir.1" to "recup_dir.938".
ddrescue isn't exactly something that can easily be run inside of windows, and my Linux install of Arch was borked due to some bs I was dealing with the other day. Am running a fresh install of Garuda linux now, and am running ddrescue as we speak, but there's still around 3.5 hours to go.
I'm roughly in the middle of transferring everything from my old drive to a fresh one, and ddrescue was the successful option.