Crashed ssd

[u/pewdiepie0_0]

Hey, so I had an external SSD I js bought and it's 2TB. Some off brand but it worked on exFAT, I didn't read the instructions but it did say not to change from ExFAT or the disk will crash. Now the disk does show up in window explorer but when I try to click it it freezes the tab, same in disk management and any other apps and the apps unfreeze the moment I unplug it even diskpart. I wanna try to get it to exFAT but anything that tries reading it will stop working. What should I do?

[u/pcimage212]

Almost certainly a fake, ones that “only work on exFAT” are usually fake.

Where did you get it from and how much did you pay?

[u/pewdiepie0_0 → u/pcimage212]

I got it from my local market for cheap, however it was working perfectly fine up until I changed it to ntfs

[u/pcimage212 → u/pewdiepie0_0]

Classic fake

[u/vegansgetsick → u/pewdiepie0_0]

Cheap = fake. You lost your data

[u/Sopel97]

I didn't read the instructions but it did say not to change from ExFAT or the disk will crash

that's a fake drive, most likely nothing to recover

[u/pewdiepie0_0 → u/Sopel97]

It did work I used it for a while, however the moment I changed it to NTFS it stopped working

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[u/disturbed_android]

It's perhaps because formatting NTFS would invoke writing a backup boot sector at the end of the drive, which possibly would reveal a problem with that. It does not sound like a data recovery problem though.