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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Ray3DX on 2025-05-15 14:41:58+00:00.
Recently a 2TB SATA SSD of mine decided to shit the bed and die on me. Had tons of data on it, including work, games and personal projects. My PC would refuse to boot with the SSD connected and the BIOS would flag the SSD as a hardware failure. Fortunately it was not my Windows Drive.
I picked up a SATA-USB adapter to try and see if I could recover the data. Sadly upon inserting the SSD via USB, it would instantly crash Windows Explorer and not restart.
Decided to connect it to the SteamDeck.
Steam Deck manages to recognize the drive connected without crashing, but fails to mount it. Suggesting a File System corruption.
Successfully manages to mount the drive in Read-Only mode using:
sudo mount - t ntfs -o ro /dev/sdb2 mnt/recovery
Now able to recover ALL my data and saved my ass a ton of headache.