I just now read that the drive is visible in the system. I thought you said it's not detected at all.
I see someone tried to do rework of some components on the left side of the chip, not so nice work done there tho...
We need to know a few things.
Are there any components changed?
Was the drive visible in the system before those "repairs"?
Have you tried mounting the device directly, not trough the USB but directly to the mother board with SATA cable?
Get a proper picture of both sided of the drive. I did not expect so much physical "repairs" done.
if the drive is detected then it would be possible to update the firmware, but again a big WARNING! There is a high chance that the firmware update could delete the information on the drive.
If you don't have the password/seed/pr.keys saved on the drive and you have a strong wallet password, I again suggest that data should be recovered by someone who knows what he is doing.
I will try the update of firmware on different similar harddisk to make sure data doesn't deleted . i am working carefully do not worry...
1- There are no component change as far as i know , well yes some people in the past try to fuck it it , the only thing i hope they did not fuck the chips. which i doubt from the images i see.
2- The harddisk is showing as you see.( not quite sure if it was showing before physically repair attempt before.
3- tried SSD tool from sandforce/Kingstone, for the update of firmware , the device is not showing inside it , even i tried another harddisk same module which is encrypted it show even before decrypting it . -> is there anyway else to try update firmware ?
photos: for both sides
https://pasteboard.co/JKDzT8R.jpghttps://pasteboard.co/JKDA75K.jpgIf you have access to the disk and it's shown in the system you can try to recover some data using programs like
EaseUS I've been using this software for many years as we have a lifetime license but I never needed to recover files from SSDs so I don't know how good this will perform but it's worth trying before you take more serious actions.
A security tip for newbies. If someone tries to reach you on private messages, be very careful, never give access you your machine trough team viewer or similar software, keep conversations as public as possible so if there's a scammer it well be easily revealed.
Never give private keys, wallet files, seeds to anyone, don't let them see it.70 Bitcoins is quite a serious amount of money and sure there will be people trying to steal it..
I often send pms to newbies to warn them about the possible scammer attempts, here I decived to post it so everyone ca see.
