Failed to ID SSD
Hi any help would be greatly appreciated before I completely give up. And please don’t come after me about not backing up. The computer the drive was in was replaced in 2022. I have thankfully data prior to getting this but the data on here is important.
This is the message I received from the data recovery place-
We've finished the evaluation of your SSD, but I'm afraid the data isn't going to be recoverable in this case. All components on the circuit board tested as being good, with correct voltages on all lines and no hot spots visible under the Infra Red camera. The drive pulls amps but still failed to ID, which is typical of firmware failure. It appears that the firmware on this particular device is digitally signed (i.e., security locked) by the manufacturer, and there is no technology currently available that can recover the data.
Many SSD manufacturers want to protect their firmware from being reverse-engineered by other manufacturers (i.e., stolen), so they have developed ways to prevent access to it. Unfortunately, this is the very access that is needed for data recovery. Initially, manufacturers were blocking access to firmware via ATA, but data recovery developers were able to get around this by accessing the firmware via other methods. However, when manufacturers found out that access had been gained, they again locked down the firmware by creating a digital signature. Without this digital signature, access to the firmware to 'fix' it is not possible.
Thanks in advance