Hello all, On Saturday 07 September 2024 17:53:54 William Morder via tde-users wrote: > I tried a sort of dangerous hardware hack, which was to open up the > laptop, and hotplug the 2 tb SSD, just to see if the system would > recognize it. Oh dear :-) how could hot plugging help? It can make only thing worse if anything. > So here is (are) my question(s): > > Can I get the system to recognize this 2 tb SSD. It is plugged in, > but doesn't appear? You mean: dir /dev/disk/by-id/ Does not show this drive at all? > Do I need to buy some sort of gadget (an enclosure or something?) > so that I can plug in the SSD as if it were a USB drive? If you want to use it as USB, yes. > Can I somehow reformat this 2 tb SSD without buying more stuff? Well, if it is not recognized at all (because it is damaged), than no. And if it is, and it is not damaged, all you would need is attaching it -- formatting is possible if it is connected directly, or via USB. Kind regards, -- http://przypadkopis.wordpress.com/ ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
