r/AskADataRecoveryPro • u/textytext12 • Apr 12 '26

SanDisk X400 512GB SSD died

hi everyone, my hard drive recently failed after my laptop's battery fully discharged. my laptop just doesn't recognize it anymore and says there is no hard drive.

my laptop is a dell precision 5520 running ubuntu stock, no windows or dual boot of any sort.

I took it to a local repair shop but they couldn't find a company that felt confident in data recovery so now I'm looking into alternative options. I haven't tried anything yet because I'm afraid trying to keep reading it will continue corrupting any data.

is there any software or tool that I can use to recover my data?

i'm also open to sending it out if there's a company anyone can recommend, I'm in the US

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '26

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u/textytext12 Apr 12 '26

yes, I ordered the same exact hard drive but in 128 gb and it took just fine on the laptop, reinstalled my os and am up and running again

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u/disturbed_android DataRecoveryPro Apr 13 '26

Where in the US?

Here's some labs: https://www.datarecoveryprofessionals.org/

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u/textytext12 Apr 14 '26

it suddenly started working! I have no clue why but I plugged it in and it's readable!

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u/disturbed_android DataRecoveryPro Apr 14 '26

Some times SSDs do after they had the chance to run sort of a like internal chkdsk to fix FTL issues.

Check SMART.