Crucial MX500 2.5 SSD Data Recovery

Crucial MX500 2.5 SSD data recovery service. At Zero Alpha, we specialize in recovering lost data from Crucial MX500 2.5" SSDs, ensuring that your valuable information is retrieved with the utmost care and expertise. Whether you're dealing with accidental deletion, hardware failure, or software corruption, our experienced technicians are equipped with advanced tools and techniques to handle even the most challenging data recovery cases. Trust Zero Alpha to restore your crucial data from your Crucial MX500 SSD, and get back to what matters most.

Common Crucial MX500 Data Recovery Cases

• Accidental Deletion

  • Human error is a leading cause of data loss. Specialists use advanced recovery techniques and software to retrieve accidentally deleted or formatted files.

• Firmware Corruption

  • Inaccessible SSDs due to firmware corruption require specialized tools for repair and data recovery.

• Physical Damage

  • Mishandling or accidents can physically damage the drive. Component-level repairs may be necessary to recover data.

• Bad Blocks

  • Wear and tear can lead to bad blocks on the SSD. Professionals recover data from these blocks without further damage.

• Electronic Failure

  • Failure of electronic components like capacitors and resistors requires delicate diagnosis and repair.

• Overheating

  • Overheating can cause data corruption. Specialists address this while preventing further damage during recovery.

• Sudden Power Loss

  • Incomplete write operations due to sudden power loss result in data corruption. Careful handling is needed to minimize data loss.

• Password Recovery

  • For encrypted Crucial MX500 SSDs, specialists may need to employ password recovery techniques to access the data.

Crucial MX500 2.5 SSD 250gb CT250MX500SSD1 Data Recovery Case Log

This is a 250GB laptop size SSD. Zero Alpha was able to recover all documents as required by the customer for this faulty SSD.

SSD MX500 CT500MX500SSD1 Data Recovery Case Log

12/03/24 - Opened the casing of the SSD. The controller is SM2258H, supported by pc3000

Test point is JP3

Selected family......................... : Crucial BX500
Controller.............................. : SM2258XT
 
SSD status:
SSD is in ready state................... : No
Firmware mode........................... : Unknown
SSD is locked........................... : Unknown
SSD is in Safe Mode..................... : Unknown
Logical access is possible.............. : No
Physical access is possible............. : No
 
Ready state waiting..................... : Ok
Power Off
Power On
Ready state waiting..................... : Ok
Safe mode............................... : Ok
 
SSD status:
SSD is in ready state................... : Yes
Firmware mode........................... : ROM
SSD error code.......................... : 0x00 (No errors)
SSD is locked........................... : No
SSD is in Safe Mode..................... : Yes
Logical access is possible.............. : No
Physical access is possible............. : No
 
Chips id................................ : 2CA40832A100
Vendor.................................. : Micron
Type.................................... : 64L(B16A) TLC
 
Loader uploading
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   MPISP code name......................... : S1007A0 IMB16_00; S0104D(N)
    
   S1007A0 IMB16_00; S0104D(N)............. : Ok
   Calling executable code................. : Ok
   Invalid sectors per regions value (0xFFFF0000)
    
   Seed table reading

Update 26Mar24: After trying various utilities including the recommended ADATA utility for SM2258H we could not get data access using the almost 100 different loaders to initialise this SSD for recovery. So I tried again using the Crucial BX500 SM2258XT and finally some success. It did take over 5 minutes to load the utility and it loaded CP modules etc. No need for loader. I skipped this as I wanted to check for data access first and yes there was data access now. Making a DE task via the utility did not work. I used sata1 port direct and I was able to make a task to get all the data back. Here is a copy of the successful data recovery utility log file:

Selected family......................... : Crucial BX500
Controller.............................. : SM2258XT
 
SSD status:
SSD is in ready state................... : Yes
Firmware mode........................... : ROM
SSD error code.......................... : 0x00 (No errors)
SSD is locked........................... : No
SSD is in Safe Mode..................... : Yes
Logical access is possible.............. : No
Physical access is possible............. : No
 
Chips id................................ : 2CA40832A100
Vendor.................................. : Micron
Type.................................... : 64L(B16A) TLC
 
Loader uploading
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   Loader is not uploaded! Some utility functions may not work properly!
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Microchips information uploading........ : Ok
SSD parameters reading.................. : Ok
Params buf checking error
 
Table is not loaded!
Reassigned block table loading.......... : Operation aborted
 
CP table loading
   CP blocks not found
Completed
 
CP blocks not found
Params buf checking error
CP 0004 not found
USER password........................... : No

2020 500GB SSD DATA RECOVERY CASE LOG

27May24: This ssd comes ready but goes busy when you try to ID it. 

CPU: SM2258H AB
SAFE MODE: J3
REGULATOR: AKJ M34 713

The SM2258H and SM2258G cpu variants have custom firmware. If these models go busy on command then they have severe firmware corruption and are not easily solved by professional data recovery tools. 

CT1000MX500SSD1 M3CR043 Burnt out Chip Data Recovery Caselog

22Aug24: Client reported that there was a problem with the power source. This ssd has a very badly damaged chip which created smoke and burnt the pcb. Controller is SM2259H AC. Damaged chip appears to be IBGQP but is indeed a Monolithic Power Systems (MPS) B6QP. The 1 at the start indicating RoHS 1 standard halogen and lead free. 1B6QP chip.