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The device is something we bought online last year. We had a bunch of old hard drives and we wanted to access them. It plugs into the computer and brings up all of the files on it.

Well I'm not sure how they could be lost. I had most of them encrypted. I am not going to reinstall that drive right away. I am going to try the stuff in the first post., by condobloke but not right away. I am using this old hard drive for now. Thank you for all of your advice and I will...

The SSD is the drive that failed. Well, not the drive itself but some of the software on it. We usually use a drive reader. It allows me to see all of the info on said drive and I can drag and drop whatever I want off of it to my main hard drive.

As a matter of fact, I didn't. If I had known that was the proper procedure I would have done so.

Excellent! Very helpful and I will surely refer to it do it the right way when I put the other drive back in. It is much faster than this old drive. It's a SSB drive...the one that messed up. I read all of it. I am a voracious reader. Thank you very much. I did run SMART and it passed.

A bunch of stuff went wrong. I've been running Linux Mint flawlessly for years. This morning all of my google icons were missing. Then some of my files looked like they had locks on them. So I rebooted. I got the initfrm screen or something to that affect. It told me my dev/sda was missing...

I think I had hard drive failure but when reading the hard drive through a device, it says there are 66 gb of space left, so that means my files are there somewhere. Where would that be?