Recovery of a Samsung SSD T5 Drive
Emily Wong 
I have a Samsung Portable SSD T5 1TB drive which has been partitioned under Windows 10. As of today, I can't access to the drive anymore, as the Samsung Portable SSD Software 1.6.6 tells me "Failed to check free space or failed to locate a volume".
I must say that:
- Device Manager tells me that the Samsung Portable SSD T5 SCSI Disk is present
- Disk Management tells me there are two partitions: a 200 MB partition (Disk 1, Partition 1) with no file system, and a 931.19 GB partition (Disk 2, Partition 2) with no file system. Both show "Healthy" as a status.
3 Answers
It looks like file system on SSD is corrupted.
You can try to recover the files with some of recovery tools, like R-Studio or Recuva. Attention: using tools you can make data unrecoverable.
If the data on SSD is really important, I’d contact the professional recovery service. To avoid such situation I highly advise to have periodically backups. For 1TB of data cloud storage can be an efficient solution (starting from 5USD/1TB monthly depending on provider). More to read here -
14As it was written by batistuta09 You can try some of advanced data recovery software (UFS explorer, R-studio, Recuva). Probably You will get some rsults. You asked about ONTRACK, Yes, they are reputable company in data recovery area.
I had similar problem with Samsung Portable SSD T5 2TB when I tried Migrate OS to SSD using Diskgenius Free Software. Same "Failed to check free space or failed to locate a volume". I resolved it with registry cure software (I have Avast Cleanup Premium), but you can try other similar software. Problem was with chkdsk check, and it's long time checking and resolving ( depends on your hardware, but it should be 1 hour or more). That solves problem with access to the drive, but it wasn't bootable drive and it didn't work for me as "Migration OS to SSD". To avoid this problem of migrating data from HDD to SSD, try to use Samsung Data Migration software , if you are using Samsung SSD products.
