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Discover effective solutions for repairing damaged solid-state drives without losing valuable data in this comprehensive article. We can use Renee Undeleter to recover the deleted files.



ssd repair

I. About SSD

Solid state drive (SSD for short) is a hard drive mainly made of NAND electronic flash memory as storage. The solid-state hard disk is composed of a control unit and a storage unit. It is basically the same as the traditional mechanical hard disk (HDD) in terms of interface specifications, definitions, and usage methods. However, in terms of read and write performance, SSD and HDD have a huge performance difference. The former’s Faster read and write speeds, greater durability and storage security. So SSD has become the mainstream choice of current storage devices.
Although SSD has better stability and faster speed than HDD, it may also encounter various problems during use, so how to judge that the solid-state drive is broken? Please see the following points:
●Data cannot be read normally: When you find that the data of the solid-state drive cannot be read normally, if it is not because of the problem of read and write permissions, then the solid-state drive may be faulty and needs to be repaired before it can continue to be used.
●Frequent crashes or blue screens at startup: If your system installed on an SSD crashes or blue screens frequently during boot, and the problem persists after using a reset key, it’s possible that the SSD has failed critically.
●SSD becomes read-only: If you suddenly find that your SSD is in read-only mode and rejects any write operations, but you didn’t manually set the disk to read-only, the SSD may be damaged or near the end of its life. You can use some tools to detect the life of SSD.
● SSD device is running slowly: When the SSD is getting slower and slower during use, it may be caused by damage to the SSD. Also viewOther Reasons SSDs Are Running Slow .
When the solid-state hard disk has various failures that indicate damage, the data in the device will face the risk of loss. In order to avoid unnecessary losses, we need to use professional data recovery software to retrieve the lost data. It is recommended that you use Renee Undeleter , which supports both Windows and Mac systems, and is easy and effective to operate.

II. How to use Renee Undeleter to recover lost data from hard disk?

1. What is Renee Undeleter?

Renee Undeleter is a software specially designed to restore various data files. When you accidentally delete important files, empty the recycle bin, or format the disk/storage, you can use this tool to find the lost data back. This software covers four functional modules, including file recovery, format recovery, partition recovery and image creation, so it can help you solve many data loss problems that may occur during system use in an all-round way, which is very convenient.
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2. How to recover hard disk data with Renee Undeleter?

Restoring data with Renee Undeleter is very simple, the specific steps are as follows:
Step 1: Download, install and run Renee Undeleter, select the option Whole Disk Scan in the main interface. This option will scan the entire hard disk, so do not install the software to any partition of the hard disk that needs to be scanned. In the hard disk that does not need to be scanned, otherwise it will not be able to use Whole Disk Scan to scan. If the lost data is not much and the lost time is not long, you can also use Fast Partition Scan and Whole Partition Scan modes to save scanning time.
Note: Do not install on the disk that needs to restore data, so as not to cause data overwriting.
select whole disk scan in renee undeleter
Data recovery function introduction:

Fast Partition Scan: Quickly retrieve files lost due to accidental deletion or emptying the recycle bin.

Whole Partition Scan: Quickly recover files lost due to inaccessible or formatted partitions.

Whole Disk Scan: It can analyze and obtain partition information, and fully scan the entire partition.

Image Creation: You can create a mirror image for a partition to back up the current partition state.

Step 2: Next, select the disk device to be scanned and then click Next. Select default setting on the advanced setting interface.
select a disk to recover in renee undeleter
Step 3: After that, the software will analyze the disk device. After scanning, you can double-click the file in the preview window on the right to preview it, then select the file you want to restore, and click the Recover button in the lower right corner to restore the selected file.
select taget files to recover with renee undeleter
Step 4: Next, select the target folder, click Browse to select another disk to save the recovered files, and then click the Recover button to start the file recovery command, you just need to wait patiently.
recover files from whole disk scan with renee undeleter

III. What are the methods of repairing SSD?

1. Update the driver of the SSD

The method of updating the SSD driver is relatively simple, and the specific operation steps are as follows:
Step 1: Run the Windows computer, connect the hard disk to the computer, and then press the (Windows+R) keys on the keyboard at the same time to open the running window. After entering (devmgmt.msc), click the (OK) button to enter the Device Manager.
open device manager
Step 2: Next in “Disk Drives”, right-click on the SSD and select the (Update Driver) option.
update driver-disk
Step 3: Next, select the (Search automatically for updated driver software) option, and then follow the instructions in order to complete the update of the hard disk driver. Please restart the computer after the driver update is complete.
search automatically for updated driver software

2. Run CHKDSK to repair file system errors

It is very simple to check and repair a damaged hard disk with the help of CHKDSK. The specific operation steps are as follows:
Step 1: Connect the solid-state drive to the computer, search (cmd) in the search box in the lower left corner, and select (Run as administrator) to open the command prompt tool.
run command prompt as administrator in start menu
Step 2: In the opened command prompt window, enter the command ( chkdsk F: /f /r /x ) (F: refers to the disk number of the solid-state drive; /f will try to repair all errors on the disk; /x can force the drive to be unmounted before starting the scan; /r can find bad sectors and restore readable information), and press (Enter) key to fix the error. After the SSD is repaired, check again whether the device works normally.
Enter the disk repair command

3. Update the firmware of the SSD

When a solid-state drive fails, updating its firmware is also an option. You only need to search for different brands of SSD management tools or firmware update tools to update, but avoid sudden interruption during the update process to avoid damage to the SSD. Some well-known brands of SSD management tools are listed below.
Intel memory and storage tool official website: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download-center/home.html?v=t
Intel memory and storage tool
Kingston SSD Manager official website: https://www.kingston.com/support/technical/ssdmanager
Kingston SSD Manager
Samsung Portable SSD Software Official Website: https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/portable/
Please download the corresponding SSD management software according to different models of SSD.
Samsung Portable SSD Software
Seagate SeaTools™ SSD official website: https://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/ssd/barracuda-ssd/
Seagate SeaTools SSD