Best data rescue tool (single NTFS NVMe drive) in 2023?

[DaTruAndi]

Hey friends,

have a suddenly acting up SSD with NTFS as the file system.
What's the best way in 2023 to try to recover data? In the past I had best results with the free "testdisk".

Partition Recovery and File Undelete

TestDisk is a free and open source data recovery software tool designed to recover lost partition and unerase deleted files.

www.cgsecurity.org

Is there something better today? Or more user friendly alternatives?
Ideally want to be able to find and recover partition if possible, if not, I want to get as much of the directory structures and files as possible.

EDIT: Drive does no report back size right now, so testdesk fails

Thanks,

 

[i386]

What I would do:
1.) create an image of the device (there are different tools or live systems, they create basically the same image and format)
2.) use recovery tools with/on that image

My tool of choice is winhex (not free, I think it was ~200$ for the professional version and updates for 2 years)

 

[oneplane]

Depends on what the data is worth to you. If there is hardware damage and the data is worth a lot to you, I'd say outsource it to an expert. If there is no hardware damage at all and the data isn't worth much, take an image like i386 wrote and work on that.

Considering the drive reports no size, it seems like a controller issue, which means that none of the 'data rescue' tools will help you here, they assume a working drive and what you have is a non-working drive. It is likely that the data in the NAND chips is fine, but the firmware or the controller is dead.

 

[Fgp303]

R-Studio also handy for this things.

 

[EmnaX]

You could try SpinRite.