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SSD in Mac Pro has died. How can I recover the data?!

Ben1l

Ben1l

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Nov 30, 2006
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Hi I have an OSZSSD3-2 VTX180G (Vertex 2 series)

I've been happily running the drive as my main system drive in my Mac Pro. I came back to find the Mac Pro with a grey screen with nothing on in but, an image of a file with a question mark in it. The system refuses to load, no matter how many times I've tried restarting it.

I have a docking station that connects internal hard drives to other machines. I've tried the SSD in this, while connected to my macbook Pro but the drive will not load/mount

Please Please help!.


Many thanks!
 
If it won't mount in the machine, or even in a docking station you are out of luck.

Invest in a Time-Machine drive.
 
The grey screen file question mark symbol means it isn't recognized due to an error, usually it means the drive has "died" and the hardware is no good. If you keep getting the same error and it can't be read then there's nothing you can do other than take it to a specialist who can try to repair it but the data is probably lost if there isn't a backup copy.
 
Ben1l said:
Hi I have an OSZSSD3-2 VTX180G (Vertex 2 series)

I've been happily running the drive as my main system drive in my Mac Pro. I came back to find the Mac Pro with a grey screen with nothing on in but, an image of a file with a question mark in it. The system refuses to load, no matter how many times I've tried restarting it.

I have a docking station that connects internal hard drives to other machines. I've tried the SSD in this, while connected to my macbook Pro but the drive will not load/mount

Please Please help!.


Many thanks!
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I know you're going to get tire dof hearing it, but this is why backups of some kind are essential!

Try booting to different disk/OS and see if you can see and mount the drive. If the drive is logically seen, even without mounting, dd or such may be able to pull data off.

Failing that you're going to have to go to a specialist like Drive Savers. I hope the data's valuable if you do that because they (and their competitors) don't come cheap.

Drive Saver's SSD page

Good luck!
 
I wouldnt think many people would fork that much cash on a mac pro AND an SSD and only use the single drive.

I've got a macbook pro and a Mac Pro, and neither of my computers use an SSD for more than just holding the OS and applications acting as a boot drive.

both computers have a secondary drive for storage and both of THOSE drives share another drive for backup (data is the same on storage on both computers).

I do manual backups, so time machine and all the other options arent absolutely necessary.
 
For the record, performing any kind of data recovery on an SSD is extremely difficult, due to the nature of how an SSD stores data.

Backup, bro. Now you see the benefit.
 
SSD = backups are essential. Period! Just the nature of the technology.
 
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