How to recover data from a SSD PNY

Are you looking for a way to recover data from PNY SSD? Do you encounter performance issues, or have PNY SSD errors caused a loss of data? Is that data lost irreversibly, or maybe there are methods to recover it?

Resolving SSD PNY Failures Effectively

SSD PNY Data Recovery in 2024

Repair the media, eliminate any errors that caused a failure and recover the lost data - all on your own.

Resolving SSD PNY Failures Effectively

If you need to recover an internal or external hard disk (HDD, SSD or SSHD), a memory card or a USB pen drive, the first step is to connect it to a computer. If you want to recover data from a dashboard camera, phone, camera, or a music player, you should remove their memory card and connect it to a desktop computer. Also, you can try this tutorial for internal phone storage, if you connect your phone to a computer and it displays your device in This PC folder as a USB drive.

The Program For Recovering PNY SSD Data

Are you looking for a way to recover data?

If files have been deleted from a PNY SSD, and it is impossible to recover them by using standard tools of your operating system, the most effective way will be to use Hetman Partition Recovery.

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For this purpose, do the following:

  • Download the program install and launch it.

  • By default, users are suggested to start with File Recovery Wizard. Click «Next» and the program will ask you to select the disk you want to recover your files from.

  • Double-click on the disk and select analysis type. Choose «Full analysis» and wait for the disk scanning procedure to finish.

  • When the scanning is over, you will be show files for recovery. Select the ones you need and click «Recover».

  • Select one of the options to save files. Do not save the recovered files to the disk from where they have been deleted previously because they can be erased.

The Program For Recovering PNY SSD Data
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How to Recover Deleted Files With Hetman Partition Recovery Software

How to Recover Deleted Files With Hetman Partition Recovery Software

Recover Data From PNY SSD After Formatting or Deleting Partition

Recover Files After Formatting

Are you looking for a way to recover files from a PNY SSD after formatting? Follow this guide:

  • Download Hetman Partition Recovery, install and launch it. After launch, the program will find and display all physical disks as well as available and unavailable partitions and areas on your disks, showing this information in the left part of the main window.

  • Double-click on the disk or the area from which you need to recover files and select analysis type.

  • Choose «Full analysis» and wait for the disk scanning procedure to finish.

  • When the scanning is over, you will be show files for recovery. Select the ones you need and click «Recover».

  • Select one of the options to save files. Do not save the recovered files to the disk from where they have been deleted previously because they can be erased.

Recover Files After Formatting

Recover Data From Deleted Partition

Are you looking for a way to recover files from a deleted partition in a PNY SSD? Follow this guide:

  • Download Hetman Partition Recovery, install and launch it. After launch, the program will find and display all physical disks, flash drives or memory cards in the left part of the main window. The list of physical devices is shown after logical drives

  • Double-click on the device from where a partition was deleted.

  • Choose «Full analysis» and wait for the disk scanning procedure to finish.

  • When the scanning is over, you will be shown files for recovery. Select the ones you need and click «Recover».

  • Select one of the options to save files. Do not save the recovered files to the disk from where they have been deleted previously because they can be erased.

Recover System Partition With LiveCD

If there is no possibility to connect a hard disk with a lost or damaged system partition to another computer, you can recover such partition by starting your computer with LiveCD, an alternative portable version of an operating system. For this purpose, do the following:

  • Find a LiveCD which is good enough for your needs, download it and copy it to a CD\DVD or a flash drive.

  • Connect the LiveCD to your computer and turn it on. The computer will reboot automatically with the LiveCD.

  • Copy files from the system partition to another media (often it can be an external hard disk).

Recover System Partition Data on Another Computer

If the system partition is lost, a computer will not boot. That is why:

  • Take out of the computer or disconnect the hard disk where the system partition was lost.

  • Connect this HDD to another computer.

  • Make sure that your hard disk is recognized by the other computer correctly.

  • Now, follow the steps as shown in the previous section.

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How to Recover Data After Formatting, Deleting or Creating Partitions

How to Recover Data After Formatting, Deleting or Creating Partitions

SMART Parameters Of PNY SSD

Large hard disk manufacturers include S.M.A.R.T. technology into their products. S.M.A.R.T. analyzes a great number of mechanical attributes. This analysis allows detecting hard disk errors before it breaks down completely, and it can also help to find out why it happened.

In spite of S.M.A.R.T. ability to predict future problems, most of them cannot be prevented. Therefore, S.M.A.R.T. is a technology which often warns users of the hard disk nearing its end. S.M.A.R.T. values cannot be corrected and there is no need to waste time on that.

Every hard disk manufacturer sets a threshold value for every operation. Under normal circumstances, threshold values are never exceeded. Otherwise, we encounter errors.

There are 256 values, each having its own ID. Some errors and extreme values are critical. There is no solution for such errors. The only way out for them is to replace the hard disk as soon as such error is detected.

There are no methods to correct critical SMART errors. If the hard disk is not replaced, the error will be displayed again and again. The only justified reason for still keeping the disk will be the need to save data from the sectors which are still available. If the error warning comes true, the disk will become unavailable for any program known. That is why there are steps to be taken to save your data.

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Restore File System On PNY SSD

If it is impossible to recognize the file system on PNY SSD, hard disk, format the device.

File System In PNY SSD Is Recognized as RAW

Sometimes the operating system cannot recognize the file system structure (for example, FAT or NTFS). If you check properties of such device, its file system will be identified as RAW. In this case, Windows suggests formatting the disk.

There are utilities specialized in restoring RAW disks, but we recommend using a versatile solution, Hetman Partition Recovery. This function is an additional component, so you only have to launch the program and analyze such disk.

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How to Fix Flash Drive Errors: The Drive Can’t Be Recognized, Wrong Size, RAW File System

How to Fix Flash Drive Errors: The Drive Can’t Be Recognized, Wrong Size, RAW File System

Run CHKDSK Command

In some cases, the file system on a PNY SSD can be repaired with the command CHKDSK.

  1. Launch the Command prompt as Administrator.

  2. Type in the command “chkdsk D: /f” (instead of D: type in the letter of the corresponding disk) and press ENTER.

  3. As you launch the command, the process of error checking and correcting will start; it can help to restore your file system back to normal.

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How to Check Your Hard Disk for Errors and Fix Them in Windows 10

How to Check Your Hard Disk for Errors and Fix Them in Windows 10

Restore Partitions On PNY SSD With “Diskpart” Command

If a USB drive, a memory card or another media work incorrectly, cleaning the disk and its partitions with the command “Clean” and Diskpart tool can become one of the ways to solve the problem. This tool can correct errors if the device cannot be formatted or when its size is identified incorrectly.

  1. Launch the Command prompt as Administrator.

  2. Run the command DISKPART.

  3. Show the list of disks with the command LIST DISK and find the number of the disk which you need to recover.

  4. Select the disk you need: SELECT DISK # (instead of # enter the disk number).

  5. Run the command CLEAN.

  6. Create a partition in the cleaned disk and format it into the file system you like.

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How to Fix Flash Drive Errors: The Drive Can’t Be Recognized, Wrong Size, RAW File System

Find Bad Sectors And Errors, Run The Defragmentation

Scan The Disk For Errors And Bad Sectors Snd Correct Them

Check all partitions of the hard disk and try to correct the mistakes which have been found. For this purpose, do the following:

  • Open the folder «This PC».

  • Right-click on the disk containing an error.

  • Select Properties / Tools / Check now (in the tab Error-checking).

As a result of scanning, the errors found on the disk can be corrected.

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How to Check Your Hard Disk for Errors and Fix Them in Windows 10

How to Check Your Hard Disk for Errors and Fix Them in Windows 10

Run Disk Defragmentation

  • Open the folder «This PC» and right-click on the disk.

  • Select Properties / Tools / Optimize (in the tab Optimization and defragmentation).

  • Select the disk you need to optimize and click Optimize.

Note. In Windows 10 defragmentation/optimization can be scheduled so that it is performed automatically.

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How to Defragment Your PC's Hard Drive on Windows 10

Repairing PNY SSD

It is important to understand that any of the ways to eliminate errors in a PNY SSD hard disk is only a virtual solution to the problem. Often it is impossible to remove the cause of the error completely, because the device needs repairing.

You can go to a service center to fix the breakage or replace parts/microchips of a PNY SSD. Yet in this case the cost of works will be several times as expensive as buying a disk or memory card. So this step is only worth taking if you need to recover very important data.

Creating Backup Copy Of PNY SSD

There are several solutions to create data backup copies:

  1. Applications built into the operating system. Microsoft Windows offers methods of data backup that suggest saving files and data to external or intrernal (built-in) media storages. All modern versions of Windows are already equipped the fuction of creating a backup copy of certain files or the entire hard disk if necessary. The functions offered by Windows are comprehensive and self-sufficient, and they are meant to be convenient enough so that you do not go looking for third-party services or software.

  2. Manual backup. You can always use the good old method of creating a backup copy by manually copying the data to an external medium. it is a long process but if you work with small amounts of data, such solution can be acceptable for you.

  3. Online services. Recently the most up-to-date way of data backup is becoming popular, represented by numerous online services. These are companies that provide backup for your files right on the Internet. A small background application installed on your computer creates copies of thnecessary data and saves them to a remote server. However, the space allowed for storing files in a free version is too small to use this method as a complex solution. Often this space is under 10 Gb so there is no way to create a backup copy of the entire hard disk. Such services are more practical when things come to backing up a series of files.

  4. Creating a disk image. This is the most comprehensive solution to create a backup copy which is preferred by advanced users. This method suggests using a third-party program to create a backup copy of the entire disk which can be used on another information-carrying medium if necessary. With this solution, you can get access to all data which was there on the disk at the time of copying - documents, software and media files - within a short period of time.

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Models SSD PNY:

  • CS1311;
  • CS2211;
  • CS2030;
  • CL4111;
  • EP7011;
  • EP8011;

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Vladimir Artiukh

Author: Vladimir Artiukh, Technical Writer

Vladimir Artiukh is a technical writer for Hetman Software, as well as the voice and face of their English-speaking YouTube channel, Hetman Software: Data Recovery for Windows. He handles tutorials, how-tos, and detailed reviews on how the company’s tools work with all kinds of data storage devices.

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Editor: Oleg Afonin, Technical Writer

Oleg Afonin is an expert in mobile forensics, data recovery and computer systems. He often attends large data security conferences, and writes several blogs for such resources as xaker.ru, Elcomsoft and Habr. In addition to his online activities, Oleg’s articles are also published in professional magazines. Also, Oleg Afonin is the co-author of a well-known book, Mobile Forensics - Advanced Investigative Strategies.

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Questions and answers

  • What are some preventive measures or best practices that can be implemented to minimize the risk of SSD PNY malfunctions and potential data loss?

    To minimize the risk of SSD PNY malfunctions and potential data loss, here are some preventive measures and best practices that can be implemented:

    1. Regularly update firmware: Ensure that the SSD's firmware is up to date. Manufacturers often release firmware updates to fix bugs and enhance performance.
    2. Backup data: Regularly backup your important data to an external storage device or cloud storage. This ensures that even if the SSD fails, your data remains safe.
    3. Avoid power interruptions: Sudden power outages or fluctuations can cause data corruption or damage to the SSD. Use a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) to protect against power interruptions.
    4. Proper shutdown: Always shut down your computer properly instead of abruptly turning it off. This allows the SSD to complete any pending read/write operations and reduces the risk of data corruption.
    5. Avoid extreme temperatures: SSDs can be sensitive to extreme temperatures. Keep your computer in a well-ventilated area and avoid exposing it to excessive heat or cold.
    6. Avoid physical shocks: SSDs are more resistant to physical shocks compared to traditional hard drives, but it's still important to handle them with care. Avoid dropping or mishandling the SSD to prevent potential damage.
    7. Use reputable software: When managing your SSD, use reliable and reputable software for tasks such as partitioning, formatting, and data recovery. This reduces the risk of errors or compatibility issues.
    8. Monitor SSD health: Keep an eye on the health of your SSD using tools provided by the manufacturer or third-party software. This allows you to identify any potential issues early on and take appropriate action.
    9. Avoid overfilling the SSD: Leaving some free space on the SSD helps to maintain its performance and lifespan. Avoid filling it to its maximum capacity, as this can lead to slower performance and increased wear on the drive.
    10. Use TRIM: Enable TRIM support on your operating system. TRIM helps to optimize the performance and lifespan of SSDs by efficiently managing deleted data.

    By following these preventive measures and best practices, you can minimize the risk of SSD PNY malfunctions and potential data loss.

  • Are there any specific maintenance routines or regular checks that can be performed to proactively identify and address issues that may lead to SSD PNY malfunctions?

    Yes, there are several maintenance routines and regular checks that can be performed to proactively identify and address issues that may lead to SSD PNY malfunctions. Here are some recommendations:

    1. Firmware Updates: Regularly check for firmware updates provided by PNY for your specific SSD model. Firmware updates often include bug fixes and performance improvements that can help prevent potential issues.
    2. S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring: Use a S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) monitoring tool to keep an eye on the health of your SSD. S.M.A.R.T. attributes can provide early warnings of potential failures by monitoring parameters like temperature, read/write errors, wear leveling, and more.
    3. Trim Support: Ensure that Trim support is enabled on your operating system. Trim helps maintain SSD performance by proactively erasing invalid data blocks and optimizing write operations.
    4. Avoid Overheating: SSDs can be sensitive to high temperatures, which can lead to performance degradation or even failure. Ensure proper ventilation and cooling for your system to prevent excessive heat buildup.
    5. Regular Data Backup: Create regular backups of your important data stored on the SSD. This will help you recover your data in case of any unforeseen issues or failures.
    6. Check for Bad Blocks: Use software tools provided by PNY or third-party applications to scan for bad blocks on your SSD. Bad blocks can indicate potential issues and should be addressed promptly.
    7. Avoid Power Interruptions: Sudden power outages or improper shutdowns can cause data corruption or damage to SSDs. Use a reliable power supply and consider using a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) to protect your system from power fluctuations.
    8. Avoid Excessive Write Operations: While modern SSDs have improved endurance, excessive write operations can still degrade their lifespan. Avoid unnecessary write-heavy activities, such as defragmentation, excessive file transfers, or running heavy virtualization environments on the SSD.

    By following these maintenance routines and regular checks, you can proactively identify and address potential issues that may lead to SSD PNY malfunctions, ensuring optimal performance and longevity of your SSD.

  • Are there any recommended storage and usage guidelines for SSD PNY drives to ensure their longevity and reduce the need for data recovery?

    Yes, there are several recommended storage and usage guidelines for SSDs (Solid State Drives) to ensure their longevity and reduce the need for data recovery. Here are some important guidelines:

    1. Avoid excessive heat: SSDs are sensitive to high temperatures, so it's important to keep them cool. Ensure proper ventilation and avoid placing the drive near heat sources.
    2. Avoid physical shocks: SSDs are more susceptible to physical shocks compared to traditional hard drives. Avoid dropping or mishandling the drive to prevent damage to its components.
    3. Enable TRIM: TRIM is a feature that helps maintain the performance and lifespan of SSDs. Make sure TRIM is enabled in your operating system to allow the drive to efficiently manage the data it stores.
    4. Avoid filling the drive to capacity: SSDs tend to perform better when they have some free space. It is recommended to keep at least 10-20% of the drive's capacity free to maintain optimal performance and longevity.
    5. Minimize unnecessary writes: Excessive writing to an SSD can reduce its lifespan. Avoid unnecessary writes by minimizing temporary files, disabling hibernation (which writes the system state to disk), and moving page/swap files to a different drive.
    6. Use the manufacturer's firmware updates: SSD manufacturers often release firmware updates that can improve performance, fix bugs, and enhance compatibility. Regularly check for firmware updates and install them as recommended by the manufacturer.
    7. Backup important data: Regardless of the precautions taken, data loss can still occur. It is always recommended to regularly backup important data to a separate storage device or cloud service to ensure its safety.

    By following these guidelines, you can help maximize the lifespan of your SSD and reduce the need for data recovery.

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