Solid state drive emergency pre-boot application providing expanded data recovery function

A non-volatile computer readable storage medium comprising:

• a user area enabled to store and retrieve data in a logical block address space of a host;
• and
• a non-user area storing a failure-specific recovery routine, wherein when said non-volatile computer readable storage medium is operationally coupled to said host by a controller, upon successful completion of a boot process of the controller, host commands to read and to write data are responded to by the controller using the user area of the non-volatile computer readable storage medium, and upon detection of a predefined failure of the controller boot process, an initial host read request is responded to by the controller by returning at least a portion of the failure-specific recovery routine stored in the non-user area of the non-volatile computer readable storage medium.