On Sunday 08 September 2024 02:11:44 Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote: > On Sunday 08 September 2024 08.18:30 William Morder via tde-users wrote: > > At present I have install my entire system on a 256 gb flash drive, > > > > Any ideas about how to proceed are welcome. > > Just to make sure we have all informations: > > - You can boot your laptop from a flash drive, so at leat that USB port is > working > - none of your SSDs are seem by your "flash" system if you connect them to > other USB ports with your adapters > > I suppose you don't have another computer available to test connecting the > ssd's on it? > > It seems to me the key is to get some machine to see you drive, then you > can reformat them. If no machine can see the drives, then I am afraid they > are dead. The main drawback of SSD compared to traditionnal SATA is that > you usually "see" your SATA drive dying, but your SSD gives no warning. > > Thierry Yes, that's more or less what I am thinking, to find a machine to use to test these drives. Moreover, I am not confident that the same thing won't happen again if I get a new SSD to replace these. If the fault is in the machine itself, the SATA connector, whatever, I would just ruin another drive. Besides which, these SSDs are not so fabulous as they promise. My only problem is, my other machines that I might use for testing (desktop, old laptops, etc.) are in yet a different storage place -- far, far away from here rather than a walk across town. So for the moment, I do at least have a working system, and everything looks and works exactly like before; which is to say, almost perfect, except of course for little things like a non-working SSD. And I still have all my work and other data on external drives, so it's not the end of the world. I know a few friends of the GNU/Linux persuasion, so I hope to get their help, or to use one of their old machines for testing. Bill ____________________________________________________ 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
