Last week I set up my automation as usual to capture data for the days horse racing. I went out for the day with the family had a lovely day out only to come home and pressed the button to wake my laptop only to find "No Bootable Device Found".
The nightmare began and the lesson to back up your data start to sink in. Why oh why didn't i set my laptop to back WHY!!!. There is a chance to get the data back but it's going to cost around £1000.
I was in the market for a new laptop seeing as Windows 10 will be obsolete by the end of this year, and I was actively looking for one. I have only just manage to find a decent one for a decent price and got it set back up, but all my Bet Angel files are on the dead SSD so I'm going to have to start all over again from scratch. But it does feel somewhat liberating after accruing too much data and not having the time to go through it all, it's a chance to start again fresh with a tonne of knowledge already backed up in my head.
I may some day when i have the means to or have enough spare cash to find someone who can get the data off the ssd but that will be for another day. I'm slowly getting up to speed and getting some kind of automation set up. I have thought about swapping over to a VPS but I see the prices have changed from a one time payment of £250 to now 3 options depending on what speed and how much storage.
If anyone knows of a way to cheaply get the data off my ssd, ( I have already tried all of the tricks bios, enternal connected but power gets to it but it does not show up on any data software like recuva etc). Its dead and it seems the motherboard is also dead but I can still boot to bios. Its too much to try and sort it out so I got another laptop, and the journey starts again with lessons learnt.
The moral of the story is BACK UP YOUR F**KING DATA!!!
Laptop Died SSD Dead 750GB potentially lost
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ShaunWhite
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You've got my sympathy, I had a 2tb ssd die last week (WD Blue) but thankfully didn't lose much. Same as you, tried everything, fail.
Since found out that ssds have a first year failure rate of 1-3% esp for the cheaper ones you might use for backups. M2 is better though. The lesson is that one backup isn't enough. Trouble with ssd is it's often a total failure, I do a 3rd to good old HDD which is has never let me down and you can usually salvage something.
If you're on a budget you get an AWS Lightsail VPS (with Windows) for $8/mo first 90 days free. Charged hourly up to the monthly max so if you don't need it for a while you pay nothing. Only 30gb but enough for most normal situations.
Since found out that ssds have a first year failure rate of 1-3% esp for the cheaper ones you might use for backups. M2 is better though. The lesson is that one backup isn't enough. Trouble with ssd is it's often a total failure, I do a 3rd to good old HDD which is has never let me down and you can usually salvage something.
If you're on a budget you get an AWS Lightsail VPS (with Windows) for $8/mo first 90 days free. Charged hourly up to the monthly max so if you don't need it for a while you pay nothing. Only 30gb but enough for most normal situations.
There are a number of disaster recovery services you can use that may be able to help. They can pull data off nearly anything, for a price.
I regulary back up everything and back up the backups, but I also use backblaze to put stuff into the cloud so I have a final back up of the back up of the backups.
A long time ago I lost a lot of data, so that's why I take multiple precautions now.
I regulary back up everything and back up the backups, but I also use backblaze to put stuff into the cloud so I have a final back up of the back up of the backups.
A long time ago I lost a lot of data, so that's why I take multiple precautions now.
If the SSD is removable you could put it in another PC as secondary drive or in an external drive adapter. If it's soldered to the motherboard then not much hope without spending the money.
Automatic backup to NAS drives and cloud backups to more than one provider would be good solutions for the future for single PC or small networks.
Automatic backup to NAS drives and cloud backups to more than one provider would be good solutions for the future for single PC or small networks.
I upgraded a year ago from Samsung Evo 500GB to a Cheap chinese Fanxiang 1TB. I hold my hands up, my fault for buying it. Its worth paying double to get a decent SSD.
I took the ssd out and tried it in another working laptop but it didnt register. I also have an external ssd cable which also didnt register, i did try a working ssd to check the cable and the cable was fine. I have backed up automatically now to my 1tb cloud on the one drive. But from these comments it seems I must do more.foxwood wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2025 6:04 pmIf the SSD is removable you could put it in another PC as secondary drive or in an external drive adapter. If it's soldered to the motherboard then not much hope without spending the money.
Automatic backup to NAS drives and cloud backups to more than one provider would be good solutions for the future for single PC or small networks.
Thanks for the tips and all the comments its makes me feel I'm not alone. I have enquired to a data recovery service but the cheapest option was nearly £1000 and it would take 4 weeks. I will leave it for my son to find a solution in the future as there is a treasure trove of data in there for him to discover, he's 12 now. I will take a look at the Backblaze cloud service thanks Peter and everyone else.Euler wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2025 5:06 pmThere are a number of disaster recovery services you can use that may be able to help. They can pull data off nearly anything, for a price.
I regulary back up everything and back up the backups, but I also use backblaze to put stuff into the cloud so I have a final back up of the back up of the backups.
A long time ago I lost a lot of data, so that's why I take multiple precautions now.