SSD appears to have died.. any hope to recover?

[db02]

I purchased an X1 Carbon last year around March. It had been working perfectly and never shown any signs of issue. Yesterday the computer ran out of batteries and went into hibernate mode. When I plugged it in and turned it on, it would never boot. It would simply error out and say 2100 detection error on hdd0 (Main HD)...

It's under warranty and I called Lenovo and they are sending a replacement SSD, but obviously there's some things on the drive that I would like to recover. Is recovery from an SSD even possible? Is there anyone I can send it to that performs this task? It's the 180GB version of the drive and I believe they are a proprietary form factor, correct?

Any help would be great. Thanks!

[precip9]

One of the negatives of SSDs is that recovery after failure is generally impossible.

[Brad]

The X1C SSD is what is called an SFF SSD. Small form factor. I am sure there are other laptops using this form factor though I haven't seen any.

Was this the first time that the battery died?

Can you go into the BIOS, turn off the battery and try starting without the battery?

Brad

[domi]

It's under warranty and I called Lenovo and they are sending a replacement SSD

Have you received your replacement SSD? If so, was the replacement easy? I was under the impression these things were soldered to the motherboard, but apparently this is not the case?

[exTPfan]

It's easy to swap the SSDs on an X1 carbon (I've done it).

[domi]

It's easy to swap the SSDs on an X1 carbon (I've done it).

That's interesting. Are compatible SSDs easy to find, or are they only Lenovo-proprietary?

[RealBlackStuff]

Search e.g. eBay with: lenovo x1 carbon SSD
They look like a well-extended mini-PCIe wifi card.