On Saturday 07 September 2024 09:44:31 Maciej Pilichowski via tde-users wrote: > 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. Well, I don't intend to make a habit of hot plugging, but I cannot have it installed on boot, otherwise it is locked, and cannot be bypassed, and then I cannot get into my system at all. This happens even before grub, and I cannot get into the bios when this SSD is in the machine. So ... I intend to go out and buy something to attach it as an external drive, then hope to reformat that way, then decide how to use it. At present, this SSD is a brick, anyway, and I already saved all the data. So if I can't find a way to get the system to recognize it, mount it, reformat it, then it is money down the drain anyway. > > > 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? No, nothing shows up for this SSD. My other drives (attached via USB) do show up, however. > > > 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. I want to mount it as a USB, reformat it, then decide how to use it. If this might happen again, then I will keep running my machine from the USB. > > > 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. Obviously it is "recognized" in some fashion; because if I shut down the machine, plug in the drive, then boot again, I find that the machine and/or SSD is locked, requires a password, etc. So it is not entirely corrupt. After I get something to attach it as an external drive, I believe that I will get a little more control over the situation. ____________________________________________________ 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
