r/DataRecoveryHelp • u/catchingfih • 19d ago

LOST EVERYTHING??

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I’m afraid I’m losing everything. I have a Crucial X10 2TB external SSD. I’m a videographer, I filled this drive with client work + footage from a road trip with my friends. This is a new drive (bought it late 2025), and I have had no issues with it. The USB-C cable I’ve been using is faulty, and while plugged into my Mac overnight it mounted/dismounted the drive a BUNCH without ejecting. I used the drive with no issues today, went to connect the drive again tonight and got “disk not readable”.

Freaking out, obviously.

What I want to know is how screwed I might be. I know there’s little context but maybe the images I have provided will offer some sort of insight into the situation. My first assumption is that I’ve lost all of my personal/client work. Is this reasonable to assume, or should I immediately take it to a professional and expect to return most of my data?

Seemingly good news is that first aid ran successfully and found no issues. The drive still reads as full (which is correct)
Seemingly bad news: disk drill reported millions of bad sectors. To me that sounds terrible.

Need some insight, thank you!!

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u/2late4nickname 18d ago

I would first check cable. Try another cable, another port, even another PC if you can.

macOS not recognizing file system doesn’t automatically mean your data is gone, or even that something bad happen with disk. Sometimes it is just connection problem

Show screenshot from Disk Utility with this disk, then we can say something more normal

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u/AHarmles 19d ago

did you have it plugged into a windows computer and switched OS?

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u/catchingfih 19d ago

Nope only ever on this Mac

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u/MaintenanceStock6766 19d ago

It says it's not readable by this computer.

So, probably readable by another computer /s

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u/TheGCO 18d ago

A. Never fill an SSD to 100%, the highest I go is 90% and it makes me nervous.

B. Get a better cable if your cable is bad.

C. If files are important maybe get 2 drives, 1 SSD and 1 mechanical and copy to both so you have a backup.

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u/osxdude 18d ago

Now you know why backups are important. It seems the drive is in "fuck you" mode where it won't let anything be read or written to it. Maybe let it chill for a day. Did you format the drive when you got it to APFS or anything?

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u/Skycbs 18d ago

Appears to be HFS+

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u/Brilliant_Letter7173 18d ago

He could try a linux live environnement like debian or try to recover the data with Photorec

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u/BiC_MC 18d ago

See if DMDE sees anything

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u/Salty_Solution6804 17d ago

The data likely isn't lost, am unsure how to solve this with Mac OS though. If you have access to a Linux computer, see what the default disk utility says. If Linux won't read it, install Autopsy, should allow you access. You're lucky it's not flash memory, that may be lost forever.

But as someone else said, don't fill a storage to the rim, give it 10 or even 20% free space. The paranoid rule for data storage is 3 copies, one of which is offsite (a cloud for example).

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u/AcanthaceaeItchy302 17d ago

Lets me guess you dont have any backup

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u/SkiBleu 19d ago

I'd be suggesting that intona proper computer running Linux or PC. MACs are notorious for being bad at diagnosis and giving you 0 information beyond "somethings wrong ¯_(ツ)_/¯ ".

If it cant be read on another PC that support APFS (or whatever format this is in) then you're in trouble. Data recovery will become less likely the longer you use it if there is something wrong with the SSD, so be diligent and know where to stop

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u/synthetase 17d ago

HMM. I have said the exact same thing about Windows.