Very disappointed with my cheap NVMe enclosures
My son was able to show me how a kid can burn a decent office laptop by playing at Roblox... 🤦♂️
The problem then was to recover the data (no backup) so I used a NVMe-to-USB-C adapter I bought in the past, but when I connected it to my laptop it was showing me the disk as eMMC, showed me a weird partitions scheme. Since it was my first time dealing with a USB-C enclosure, I decided to buy another one, this time NVMe-to-USB-3, but still recognized as an eMMC with the same weird partition table.
Therefore I assumed the drive was corrupted and I spent hours and hours with #testdisk trying to recover the disk structures but unsuccessfully.
Eventually I realized my crapbook had an NVMe slot and I decided to give it a shot. When I plugged the drive and booted the laptop I was able to get all the correct NVMe partitions, #Windows and #Debian #Linux.
WTF... Those enclosures revealed to be totally unreliable, I don't know why the they must lie to the system and let them being recognized as a differente kind of drive (eMMC). That sucked, it prevented to recover the data! I couldn't plug my drive to browse it as any other regular USB enclosure.
I guess if I format and use as external drive is just fine, but totally useless to recover data from an existent partition scheme. I don't know if this is the standard for using NVMe drives from an external enclosure; did you experience the same too?
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