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?

  • Longpork3@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    20 days 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.

  • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 days 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.

  • Dalraz@lemmy.caEnglish
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    21 days 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@fedia.io
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      21 days 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.

  • Gakomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 days ago

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

    • shrugs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      21 days 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

    • Donut@leminal.spaceEnglish
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      21 days ago

      Idk any tech support communities, but you should try booting into BIOS to see if your storage drive is detected. If not, it probably failed (read: it’s dead, fam)

      You could try to see if you can reinstall the OS but if the BIOS doesn’t detect the drive, I doubt the OS setup will.

      While the data loss will suck, a new drive isn’t very expensive. Plus if you’re still on a HDD, it would be a good time to replace it with an SSD.