How to Recover Data from Laptop SSD?

“I recently switched the hard disk on my laptop with SSD to improve overall performance. Everything was working just fine until I upgraded Windows OS on laptop. Soon after updating Windows 8 to 8.1 OS version, I started facing frequent freezing of laptop and ended up in complete disaster. Now, laptop turns on but shows nothing. Is there any possible way to recover data saved in SSD on this laptop? Can anybody please help?”

SSD – Solid State Drive is one of the popular storage drives to hoard data on desktop and laptop. SSD will boost system performance in terms of loading OS, response time, read / write speed and launching applications. In recent times, most of the laptop users switched from their traditional hard disk drives to SSD to achieve excellent performance on laptop. Yet, as given in first section, data saved in SSD can become futile because of instances like:

  • If file system of SSD on laptop is damaged due to malware, incorrect reformat process or because of any software conflicts, then data saved on SSD will become inaccessible
  • Incorrect installation of OS, errors while reinstalling OS, improper OS update, etc. can all result in OS crash on laptop
  • Corruption to Partition Table or MBR due to logical errors and bad sectors will cause data inaccessibility from laptop SSD
  • Formatting any partition mistakenly, deleting partition while creating new one and incorrect process of resizing partitions on laptop SSD can induce huge data loss
  • Errors in flash technology of SSD can sometimes make the storage device inactive or unresponsive, which causes data loss

In these instances when data on laptop SSD becomes out of reach and if there is no backup of essential files then one will really get in to trouble as data cannot be recovered manually. However, if proper data recovery tool is employed all lost or inaccessible data on laptop SSD can be easily retrieved back.

Software to retrieve data from SSD on laptop:

Yodot Hard Drive Recovery is enriched with modest features that are capable of recovering laptop SSD data in a single shot. The modules included in this tool can extract all types of files like documents, Excel sheets, images, folders, videos, program files, executable files, PDFs, etc. from laptop SSD with much ease. Apart from recovering laptop SSD data, this utility can bring back data when SSD won’t boot on laptop or PC. It can even rescue files from deleted, missing, corrupted or error showing partition on SSD as well as internal hard disk drives with no trouble. One can utilize this software for restoring data from external hard drive, pen drive, flash memory card, FireWire drive and other possible storage devices having ExFAT, FAT32, FAT16, NTFS, NTFS5 and ReFS file systems. This ingenious tool can be installed on Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008 and 2003 operating systems.

Simple steps to regain data from laptop SSD:

  • Download Yodot Hard Drive Recovery software on your laptop SSD and install it
  • If SSD is completely inaccessible, connect it to healthy Windows computer and install the tool on that system
  • Run the application by following onscreen instructions
  • There comes a main window with two major options – ‘Partition Recovery’ and ‘Formatted / Reformatted Recovery’
  • Click on any of these options based on data loss from SSD and proceed next
  • In upcoming screen, choose the drive that represents laptop SSD from which files are to be restored
  • Then, if necessary choose the file types to retrieve or else click on ‘Mark All’ option
  • Initiate scanning process, whose progress will be displayed in ‘Status Bar’
  • As scanning completes view rescued data in ‘Data View’ or ‘File Type View’ modes
  • Use ‘Preview’ option to have detailed look at recovered files one by one
  • At last, save rescued data in known target location other than same laptop SSD that was scanned

Points to Remember:

  • Regularly backup essential data from laptop SSD on to other storage device
  • Avoid all possible errors while performing critical tasks on laptop SSD

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