Recovering Data from Soldiered SSD Drive
A user has a Transformer T100TAF, it's an ASUS product. The computer runs on Windows 8 and has stopped booting. Looking it over, I found that it had been dropped. It looks like the motherboard is cracked. I don't see a drive-in here, so I assume that the SSD is soldered in place, though, I've not identified which chip is the SSD.
If I can ID the chip is there a reader that I can use to get the data off?
I'm searching the interwebz and I'm not finding a lot of great answers, though, someone out there must be able to do this kind of thing.
If I can ID the chip is there a reader that I can use to get the data off?
I'm searching the interwebz and I'm not finding a lot of great answers, though, someone out there must be able to do this kind of thing.
Alex
You could send it off for a professional recovery, you're looking around £600 UK money, probably closer $1000 in the US
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What is the exact model? If the data is so important he or she can pay for a similar model and then let a technician replace the drive on it. A chip identification can be done by reviewing the records on them.
It's not even a SSD chip soldered on the motherboard, it's an eMMC flash device so it's embedded in the memory controller which is then soldered onto the motherboard (next to the CPU I think), Simplest thing is to float the chip off and then solder it onto a donor board which isn't going to be cheap as it needs a rework station.
It's not even a SSD chip soldered on the motherboard, it's an eMMC flash device so it's embedded in the memory controller which is then soldered onto the motherboard (next to the CPU I think), Simplest thing is to float the chip off and then solder it onto a donor board which isn't going to be cheap as it needs a rework station.
But still a lot cheaper than a "chip-off" recovery without a donor board!
This is why you should always back up your data to an external disk, or multiple external media. It save you the trouble of trying to "recover" data.
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All,
Thank you for your help. I did find a few places that said that they may be able to recover what's stored on this device, but at a cost of no less than $700, they said no. Which I thought might be the case. Let's just hope that they learn from this and keep their stuff backed up. Ha!
Thank you for your help. I did find a few places that said that they may be able to recover what's stored on this device, but at a cost of no less than $700, they said no. Which I thought might be the case. Let's just hope that they learn from this and keep their stuff backed up. Ha!