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[SOLVED] SDD fried

Hello,

My 4 years old SSD just died tonight, during my attempts to understand what was going on, it showed the following symptoms:

1. Crashed the laptop and taking grub down with it.
2. Error: alloc magic is broken
3. Error: Unable to read superblocks [related](https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,5500.msg34796.html#msg34796)

At this state it won't show up under `lsblk -f` or `sudo fdisk -l`. I'm just wondering is there anything left I could do to retrieve the data myself (and also to share my deepening sadness).

Thank you.

Re: SDD fried

Reply #1 –
sudo fdisk -l
The whole disk doesn't show up or the partition ?

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Reply #2 –
testdisk / photorec can be useful, also whatever filesystem you were using probably has some repair and recovery tools.
https://www.cgsecurity.org/
The first  thing to do if possible is make an image of the disk and work on that, you'll need free space in excess of the size of the subject drive. There are numerous approaches to data recovery and it's never clear at the start which is going to work best, and a faulty drive is unlikely to improve with use. If the drive itself (not only the partitions, which would be a different matter) isn't showing up, you could try it in an external enclosure and turn it on and off a few times and hope it fires up at some point, often faults are intermittent. I guess if it's faulty you could try (not too violently) warming it or cooling it, or shaking and/or tapping it, although that's a bit crude it sometimes helps! There are specialists who can recover data from hardware failed drives if you have anything valuable enough to warrant it.

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Reply #3 –
ddrescue may also be worth a try.

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Reply #4 –
For some reason changing the SDD to the other NVME port of my laptop fixed the problem. Not sure for how long though. I'm making a backup just in case. Thanks for the help anyway.

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Reply #5 –
These nvme ports are kind of finnicky, i have a desktop cpu that burnt it's nvme port by overheating a couple of times, hopefully not the case here, but yeah laptops also flex their boards and this disconnects those thin traces too.