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I cannot access my external ssd drive (ex-bootable drive)
Hello,
my SSD drive was suddenly inaccessible after a reboot, so I put my backup spindle drive into my laptop to get it started.
Because I have important files I need to access from my ssd I put that into a case and plugged it into the USB port.
Now windows explorer just hangs forever trying to detect/access it! in Computer management I cannot see the disk partition but I can see the harddisk device in device manager.
In windows explorer I can see one drive letter assigned (there should be two drives on the ssd) but when I tried to access the drive it just hangs forever. It also hangs with any other methods I try to access it (chkdsk, data recovery programs, Testdisk by CGSecurity)!!
I think the main issue is that the external ssd is locking up everytime some program tries to access it... perhaps if I can somehow remove this lock I might be able to attempt a data recovery....
does anyone know how I can stop it from freezing?
Thanks so much in advance for your help guys....