Solved SSD no longer recognized by Windows
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I cannot say either way. 
going back to the golden rule in data recovery - the least number of I/O's on the drive, the better your chances of recovery are.
plus, you'd have to say that any image you take will also copy any file corruption as well.
but it does give you a warm fuzzy feeling knowing you have a 'copy' of your data - be it maybe a false one.
it all comes back to how important is the data?, is it worth the effort and cost?, can it be retrieved by any other method: emails, online, hard copies, etc?
and just to rub salt into the wound - since it wasn't being backed up, how important is it really?
going back to the golden rule in data recovery - the least number of I/O's on the drive, the better your chances of recovery are.
plus, you'd have to say that any image you take will also copy any file corruption as well.
but it does give you a warm fuzzy feeling knowing you have a 'copy' of your data - be it maybe a false one.
it all comes back to how important is the data?, is it worth the effort and cost?, can it be retrieved by any other method: emails, online, hard copies, etc?
and just to rub salt into the wound - since it wasn't being backed up, how important is it really?
The data is important enough that I would be happy to be able to restore the folder structure for $500 (I won't be happy if I have to pay more, but I will pay more). The data was backed up, but when I finished changing partition sizes and copied the data onto the newly-enlarged partition, I deleted the (now slightly outdated) backup, intending to relocate and update it. The very next morning the reliable Intel SSD failed.
yeah, it all comes back to getting data off a failed drive.
you could do a quick format of the drive as that only blows away the 'drive info' and leaves your data in what ever state is currently is, then assign a drive letter, then try Recuva (for example).
but the caveat here is Recuva, and those sort of programs, use the master file table to know where all the fragments of files reside and that's the 'info' that gets blown away in a quick format.
and your drive isn't readable at the moment and Recuva won't work without a drive letter - see the viscous circle we are in?
sounds like your data is important enough to at least get a quote from the nearest forensic data recovery lab.
you could do a quick format of the drive as that only blows away the 'drive info' and leaves your data in what ever state is currently is, then assign a drive letter, then try Recuva (for example).
but the caveat here is Recuva, and those sort of programs, use the master file table to know where all the fragments of files reside and that's the 'info' that gets blown away in a quick format.
and your drive isn't readable at the moment and Recuva won't work without a drive letter - see the viscous circle we are in?
sounds like your data is important enough to at least get a quote from the nearest forensic data recovery lab.
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