DMDE data recovery if it can't find a partition
Hey all, using DMDE for the first time. I have an m.2 hard drive that died rather suddenly. I got an adapter port, DMDE, did a lot of reading and video tutorials but checking here in case there's something I'm missing. I believe the paritition and data in question are completely unrecoverable and lost permanently.
I believe it was a 1 tb drive, maybe it was smaller but certainly significant in size. DMDE only detects it as 1.07 gb, so I can tell it can't find everything. Running the full scan shows no files found.
As you can all tell, this isn't my strong suit. But I'm thinking two things here:
the partition the laptop ran on is... unfindable. Which seems to be corrupted beyond recovery.
If I'm lucky, this is really just a user error and I'm missing some step to make that partition "appear" so we can look at it, even identify that it's corrupted.
It's odd to me that nothing can be seen and that the m.2 is read as being so tiny compared to what it once was (but the corruption would do that, I guess).
So. Any hope? Any ideas for next steps?
(And most everything is fine, there's literally two documents I'm wishing to recover).