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Samsung 1TB EVO850 mSata started acting weird recently. I had it in the base card slot of my machine, but started getting a boot PXE message during POST on a Dell M4800 running Windows 7 Pro, so I moved to an Apricot mSata USB device, but the thing got HOT. I mean really, really HOT. The other day it took forever to show up, I copied a few files to it, then shut my machine down. I got a popup during the shutdown about errors, and asked if I wanted to fix them, then the machine shut down before I could do anything.
I plugged it in again the next day, and it took forever to show up, locked the machine until it did show up, and asks if I want to format it. I popped the Apricorn case open and saw what appeared to be a damaged pin solder pad, so I ordered a Sabrent USB enclosure for it. Ithe does the same thing in the Sabre as it does in the Apricorn. Now I can get the drive to show up, appears with the same drive letter as before, but it's seen as unformatted.
My question: Any tips on using a hex editor even though it doesn't appear as a formatted drive? I'm hoping to restore it, but most of the programs I've used were for spinning hard drives, not SSDs, and with no format info, the EaseUS I tried want connect.
BTW, the base machine is a domain attached corporate laptop, so my choices in software are limited to what the corporate IT gestapo will allow to be installed, and there is no way to either upgrade to Win10 or install any patches.
I plugged it in again the next day, and it took forever to show up, locked the machine until it did show up, and asks if I want to format it. I popped the Apricorn case open and saw what appeared to be a damaged pin solder pad, so I ordered a Sabrent USB enclosure for it. Ithe does the same thing in the Sabre as it does in the Apricorn. Now I can get the drive to show up, appears with the same drive letter as before, but it's seen as unformatted.
My question: Any tips on using a hex editor even though it doesn't appear as a formatted drive? I'm hoping to restore it, but most of the programs I've used were for spinning hard drives, not SSDs, and with no format info, the EaseUS I tried want connect.
BTW, the base machine is a domain attached corporate laptop, so my choices in software are limited to what the corporate IT gestapo will allow to be installed, and there is no way to either upgrade to Win10 or install any patches.
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