What the actual ****. Couldn’t boot up my laptop, booted from a different drive, used a recovery tool….no data on the disk at all and its in good health….

Is it possible that an SSD can bug out and run a hardware wipe/doomsday routine? Virus?

Im sorry Tom.

It hates you, they have feelings. Be nice and keep the smut off the next one 😉 everything can fail in various ways.
What does the magic recovery tool recover or is it just the os?

I’m mostly just bemused…..

Tried testdisk mike.

OK. No idea what it’s meant to do, there could be a few reasons the data isn’t being seen. Assuming just a restoration of the os and carry on?

Maybe thats how they fail ? Virus ? Quite a worry.

Yes – a typical failure mode for an SSD is – you got nothing.
Unless you can detect a filesystem or partition to repair its gone.
Some SSD manufacturers provide diagnostic tools which could help but its manufacturer specific.
You should retire/replace/warranty the SSD – I would not trust it.

Thanks, interesting

How old is it Tom ?

I’ve had an SSD fail, it just stopped working and wouldn’t boot.
It sounds unusual that it seems to be working just with no data on there. Have you tried looking at the SMART status of the drive?

I think the bios has corrupted. It’s only booting from win 7 defaults now…and when I boot from the hardrive I can’t recognize the ssd in windows. Yet I boot from the SSD and all appears normal.

So now you can boot from “the” SSD – or you have mkre than one, a good one and a dodgy one ?

I wonder SSDs aren’t the new CDs – ie better than records as they couldn’t scratch. SSD better than Hardrives as they wouldn’t breakdown (as often) as no moving parts ?

I had a SSD a few years ago that didn’t like it when the PC was turned off suddenly, like a power cut. I had to go into the BIOS and change something in the hard drive settings (can’t remember what), then the PC would see it, and I could change it to what it should be. Until I did this the PC wouldn’t boot, Once done, it was fine, until the next power cut.

SSD better than Hardrives as they wouldn’t breakdown (as often) as no moving parts ?

No, that’s not the reason they are better; it’s because they are hugely faster in use.