[Slacker99]

I have a laptop that is physically unusable, but the "hard drive", or memory stick appears to be fine. I would like to try to retrieve the data from the drive. The data is stored on a M.2 NVMe PCIe card, and I bought a housing adapter to connect it via USB. I can connect the adapter to my PC and see the drive using Disk Manager (Win 10), but I cannot initilize the drive (which I realize I probably don't want to do anyway). So basically I cannot get Windows to mount the drive, thus I cannot get to the data.

 

Any suggestions or questions?

 

Thanks.

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Hi,

 

If the drive appears as not initialized the partitions maybe corrupted or the enclosure is not recognizing the card properly!

 

And yes you don't want to initialize a drive that already contains data.

 

Some times using a Linux live DVD/flash drive can access partitions with errors that Windows fail to access...

[SleepyDude]

Hi,

 

If the drive appears as not initialized the partitions maybe corrupted or the enclosure is not recognizing the card properly!

 

And yes you don't want to initialize a drive that already contains data.

 

Some times using a Linux live DVD/flash drive can access partitions with errors that Windows fail to access...

[oliverpowell]

Hi,

 

I have gone through your question and found that your drive seems lost its file system and this is why it is asking to be initialized. In order to use your drive you have to initialize the drive but doing this will lead data loss. Also, could you please tell us Is the drive recognized on BIOS?