Well good news bad news, the SSD is new and not faulty.
He recovered all my photos all 182647 of them but everything else has gone all the websites I had saved to favourites so I’ll have to reload all of them again also everything else like programs etc I’ve purchased over the years, all gone.
Only cost $280 so I probably won’t need to win the lotto tomorrow night.
Oh all the photos are in one folder now so I will have to sort them into their respective folders which may take a while.
Al