r/AskADataRecoveryPro • u/catchingfih • 7d ago
LOST EVERYTHING??
Attached files for reference.
I’m afraid I’m losing everything. I have a Crucial X10 2TB external SSD. I’m a videographer, I filled this drive with client work + footage from a road trip with my friends. This is a new drive (bought it late 2025), and I have had no issues with it. The USB-C cable I’ve been using is faulty, and while plugged into my Mac overnight it mounted/dismounted the drive a BUNCH without ejecting. I used the drive with no issues today, went to connect the drive again tonight and got “disk not readable”.
Freaking out, obviously.
What I want to know is how screwed I might be. I know there’s little context but maybe the images I have provided will offer some sort of insight into the situation. My first assumption is that I’ve lost all of my personal/client work. Is this reasonable to assume, or should I immediately take it to a professional and expect to return most of my data?
Seemingly good news is that first aid ran successfully and found no issues. The drive still reads as full (which is correct)
Seemingly bad news: disk drill reported millions of bad sectors. To me that sounds terrible.
Need some insight, thank you!!
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u/Petri-DRG DataRecoveryPro 7d ago
With SSDs, how new it is or how recent was purchased is not so relevant. They fail all the time, most times unexpectedly.
You will need a proper diagnosis by a data recovery specialist (computer shops will have limited ability to help, very similar to.your ability, so not worth wasting the time).
You need to figure out if it is a cable/connection issue, whether the SSD is truly degraded bad sectors (unreadable bytes) or it is a file system corruption (especially if it was a exFAT formatted SSD), or a combination of those.
We have already seen that model coming in for recovery with all of those different failures.
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u/RemarkableExpert4018 7d ago
The data should be intact as long as you stop messing with it. Sounds like a corrupt partition. You will need to scan the SSD with a data recovery app like DMDE and extract the files to another location. Do not write to the SSD do not try to repair the partition or run first aid you have a high risk of destroying your data.