Reviving a Dead SanDisk SSD for Data Recovery

You're awesome and I'm not, and that's why I have to pay you to do this for me.

Nice reasoning and Repari. Judging on the browned paper sticker, your hot air was a little harsh on the mem chip. Maybe use more heat from below, take more Time heat soak heat in the board

The owner was lucky it wasn't NAND that died

such a simple fix if you know whats wrong

I have this exact drive. Same problem. I can't solder like that. 😢

What should i do if my hdd is not initialized?

I want learn data recovery please guide me

Good thing there isn't any encryption between NAND and controller.

I have a sata ssd as well and need help recovering my drive...

I may be wrong, but as far as I have studied and researched, you cannot replace the CONTROLLER in case of DATA RECOVERY, only if you want to recover the device/hardware (SSD) to reuse it... please correct me if I am wrong.

The Drive doesn't look the same after? no controller seen on 1st board! So you scanned the drive through the frontand found the heat on the chip on the back! why not scan the chip face up! weird