What’s going on here? A week or so ago this showed up and haven’t been able to turn on my laptop since. Some hardware issue?

  • @Gakomi@lemmy.world
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    194 months ago

    Pretty sure your HDD/SSD is dead or came unplugged which is less likely but not impossible!

  • @Dalraz@lemmy.ca
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    154 months ago

    If it a failing disk, and you dont have any backup, and its important data.

    Have a look at a product callef SpinRite. It may bring the disk back from the dead long enough to get the data off

    https://www.grc.com/sroverview.htm

    Then 3 2 1 backup strategy for your future needs.

    • LostXOR
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      74 months ago

      Don’t waste your money. If the data is really important, send the disk to a data recovery service to avoid risking further damage. If it’s only somewhat important, use a (free!) tool like ddrescue to attempt to recover the data.

    • @rekabis@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      SpinRite is only meant for traditional “spinning-rust” mechanical drives.

      SpinRite IS NOT meant for SSDs. The existence of TRIM makes SpinRite useless on any sort of solid state storage.

      And since almost all laptops sold within the last half a decade use SSDs almost exclusively, it is highly unlikely your advice will be useful.

      • @Dalraz@lemmy.ca
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        24 months ago

        One of the interesting side effects of running it in an ssd is it can speed it up, it doesn’t sound like it would be the case but it does.

        None the less its still a valid option to consider.

        • @rekabis@lemmy.ca
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          4 months ago

          running it in an ssd is it can speed it up

          Let me be absolutely clear: due to the finite write capabilities of solid-state technology, using SpinRite on an SSD is materially harmful to that SSD, and WILL shorten it’s operational lifespan by a non-trivial amount.

          This is why SSDs have wear-levelling technology: to limit the number of writes that any one data cell will receive. By using a program that conducts intensive read/write operations on sectors, you are wearing your SSD out at a much higher rate than normal, dramatically speeding up any failures in the future.

          • @Dalraz@lemmy.ca
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            14 months ago

            You are absolutely correct, SSD’s do have a finite amount of write capacity and SpinRite will lower that due to it’s very nature, at least 6.1 will. However I think you are over estimating the amount of wear it will place on the drive.

            I understand the objection and it’s a valid one. I have used it on my boot SSD to restore it’s performance to great effect, do I recommend using it every year on a SSD no i don’t.

            As this post is mostly about data recovery, I still believe it’s a valid option and the performance increase is just a nice bit of bonus information.

  • teft
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    84 months ago

    If you dropped your computer recently you can check the hard drive cables to make sure they are seated properly. Otherwise it appears your hard drive is toast.

  • @Longpork3@lemmy.nz
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    74 months ago

    Boot into your bios and check the sata mode. A number of machines that I work with(acer predators most notoriously) will for no discernable reason switch from achi mode to rst optane, resulting in no drive being accessible to the os. Switching back to ahci resolves it.

    • shrugs
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      34 months ago

      It does, but that doesn’t cause the error. After failing to boot via pxe the system tries to boot from hard disk and that fails too. Bad HDD most likely

    • ElectricMachman
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      14 months ago

      BIOS are usually set up with PXE in the boot sequence. If it fails to boot from the hard drive, it’ll attempt PXE.

  • Rhaedas
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    14 months ago

    Is it a physical HD (magnetic) and making noise? I had one years ago (fortunately my only failure so far) and if I kept persisting to try and read it via a USB recovery drive, I managed to pull enough data off that was important. If it’s a newer SSD, that’s a different thing. Doesn’t mean all the data is gone, just a lot harder (read $$$) to pull. Hopefully it’s just software or a loose cable.