On 5 Nov 2022 at 15:27, andreas.fournier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: Subject: Can one rescue a dead SSD? From: andreas.fournier@xxxxxxxxxx To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date sent: Sat, 05 Nov 2022 15:27:37 +0100 Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > So, a SSD just dieded on me, the root and home partition was on it. The > computer froze and after a cold boot the BIOS doesn't find the disk > anymore. I opened up the casing but couldn't see anything suspicious to > the naked eye. > If the bios on the machine doesn't see the drive, would try a usb to sata adapter and see if another machine can see the disk. Might be something with the controller or connections in machine. Once had a disk in a desktop that wouldn't boot, and turned out to be a SATA cable that had gone bad. Had another one that was even stranger. Had a machine that would not boot to drive after a power outage that was longer than UPS could handle. Turned out the cmos battery had gone bad, so it went to default settings in BIOS. The drive was Fedora only, but somehow a BIOS setting wa set to only boot with Windows Boot Loader. Changed that to secondary option, and then later disabled it completely. Machine boots fine.. So, would check BIOS first, and make sure that it really isn't seeing the disk. If it sees the disk, look for bios setting for booting, could be almost anywhere. If it is not seeing disk on original hardware, thru using another machine. Had another disk that wouldn't boot from drive, but hooked it up to other machine and ran fsck -f /dev/sda? on each of the partitions. Some partitions had errors that it fixed, and then machine booted in original hardware.. > Anything I could do at home to try to rescue it? I have backups of most > things but not the most recent stuff. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
