On 5 Nov 2022 at 17:43, andreas.fournier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: Subject: Re: Can one rescue a dead SSD? From: andreas.fournier@xxxxxxxxxx To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date sent: Sat, 05 Nov 2022 17:43:39 +0100 Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On Sat, 2022-11-05 at 15:27 +0100, andreas.fournier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > 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. > > > > Anything I could do at home to try to rescue it? I have backups of > > most > > things but not the most recent stuff. > > I tried now to connect the SSD over a sata to usb adapter to an other > machine. It didn't show up. I'm guessing the only possibility would be > a professional rescue service. After you hook it up, run dmesg and see what it reports. Does it show an attempt to see the device, and if so does it show wany error message. Haven't messed with SSD drives so don't know if they are all one thing or not. Many years ago, had a fellow teacher have a 60G drive fail with no backup and lots of files she needed. The drive turned out to have a chip that had fried on the board. Found a drive on ebay with same model number for $20, and was able to swap the boards and recover all data, but have no ideal how often that would work. DefCon 2006 had a presentation on recovering disk, and it had a number of steps.. dmesg might report something. > _______________________________________________ > 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
