Safe Knowledge Restoration (SDR) is providing to rescue recordsdata as much as 256KB from corrupted SanDisk Excessive SSDs free of charge. A $79.99 licence price is required for bigger file recoveries.
Some 2TB and 4TB Western Digital SanDisk Excessive Professional, Excessive Transportable, Excessive Professional Transportable and MyPassport SSDs, launched in 2023, have suffered knowledge loss on account of a potential firmware bug. This has sparked a lawsuit which hopes to grow to be a category motion. Safe Knowledge Restoration thinks it has a method to salvage most if not all the knowledge from such drives.
SDR reckons the firmware bug messes up allocation metadata which stops the SSD managing knowledge distribution amongst its flash pages and cells. SDR says its “software program detects traces of scrambled metadata and file indexes. As soon as positioned, it items the data collectively and retrieves the info.” It’s offering a course of to recuperate the misplaced knowledge with customers paying a license price if recordsdata above a sure dimension are recovered. We haven’t tried this course of or verified it and embody it right here for data functions solely.
The sequence of operations a consumer wants to hold out, after connecting the SSD to a PC or Mac host, is that this:
1) Obtain the Safe Restoration software program (free)
2) Choose the situation containing misplaced knowledge. That’s C: drive for many customers.
3) Choose Fast File Search or Full Scan.
4) Select the related file or folder.
5) Proceed with the related subfolder if relevant.
6) Choose the file from the record on the fitting.
7) Click on to pick the output folder for recoverable recordsdata. That’s the E: drive for many customers.
8) Click on Get well within the bottom-right nook of the window. A standing replace will seem if profitable.
9) Click on End within the bottom-right nook of the window.
SDR says that “typically, the father or mother folder construction is misplaced within the course of. Nevertheless, the recordsdata inside them are unaffected. Most subfolders stay intact. Recovered recordsdata from lacking directories are assigned to a Misplaced and Discovered folder.”
The corporate is a SanDisk platinum associate for its restoration providers underneath a no-data-no-recovery-fee deal. WD’s knowledge restoration webpage lists 4 US-based restoration operators: Ontrack Knowledge Restoration, Drive SaversDataRecovery, Datarecovery.com and Safe Knowledge Restoration.
