0b size in boot drive

[mayapaya15]

Hi! I have been trying to fix my laptop for 2 months, I can't seem to fix it. I can't access my laptop cause it's drive has 0b size in diskpart, and it doesn't get recognized in the bios, I tried chkdsk with no luck. Any help will be appreciated

[Kanna]

Maybe the drive is just dead

[mayapaya15]

57 minutes ago, Kanna said:

Maybe the drive is just dead

Maybe, but the drive is still spinning, but it boots into winre, it should be like "Boot device missing, Please insert boot drive". Thanks for helping

 

Edit: also the said drive is the boot drive, it still shows signs of life, I don't wanna lose my data in that drive

Edited April 16, 2021 by mayapaya15
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[Kanna]

25 minutes ago, mayapaya15 said:

Maybe, but the drive is still spinning, but it boots into winre, it should be like "Boot device missing, Please insert boot drive". Thanks for helping

 

Edit: also the said drive is the boot drive, it still shows signs of life, I don't wanna lose my data in that drive

The drive can spin even if it's gone bad it just won't read any data, what signs of life? Did you try plugging it into another computer as 2nd drive?

[mayapaya15]

30 minutes ago, Kanna said:

The drive can spin even if it's gone bad it just won't read any data, what signs of life? Did you try plugging it into another computer as 2nd drive?

No, I meant that it still being recognized by windows and sets it as a boot drive but boots into winre, My assumption is that this drive turned into a format which windows doesn't support

[Master Disaster]

1 hour ago, mayapaya15 said:

No, I meant that it still being recognized by windows and sets it as a boot drive but boots into winre, My assumption is that this drive turned into a format which windows doesn't support

Not on its own it didn't. I assume its using GPT, it sounds like the main partition on the drive is corrupted but the boot/recovery partitions remain intact.

 

Best thing to do is boot into a Linux live environment using something like Ubuntu, fire up GParted and see how that reads the drive. If you take a screenshot of GParted we should be able to tell you exactly what is happening.

[mayapaya15]

2 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

Not on its own it didn't. I assume its using GPT, it sounds like the main partition on the drive is corrupted but the boot/recovery partitions remain intact.

 

Best thing to do is boot into a Linux live environment using something like Ubuntu, fire up GParted and see how that reads the drive. If you take a screenshot of GParted we should be able to tell you exactly what is happening.

Can I do that with a USB stick? Sorry if I only replied now

[Master Disaster]

1 hour ago, mayapaya15 said:

Can I do that with a USB stick? Sorry if I only replied now

Yep though you'll need access to another computer to write the USB.

[mayapaya15]

12 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Yep though you'll need access to another computer to write the USB.

im doing it rn, also ur pc spec hawt

[mayapaya15]

26 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Yep though you'll need access to another computer to write the USB.

i found one at cnet, does it boot into the live environment or its an installer?

 

[Master Disaster]

20 minutes ago, mayapaya15 said:

i found one at cnet, does it boot into the live environment or its an installer?

 

https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

 

When you first boot it it will ask if you want to Try or Install, click Try and it will boot to desktop.

[mayapaya15]

16 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

 

When you first boot it it will ask if you want to Try or Install, click Try and it will boot to desktop.

Ok, I'll do it tomorrow, I'll use this as my only hope

[mayapaya15]

8 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

 

When you first boot it it will ask if you want to Try or Install, click Try and it will boot to desktop.

new problem, m laptop alwas boots into automatic repair, even if i change the boot order

 

and also, is this normal?

[mayapaya15]

On 4/16/2021 at 11:49 PM, Master Disaster said:

https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop

 

When you first boot it it will ask if you want to Try or Install, click Try and it will boot to desktop.

Okay, booted into gparted and it shows me this, it seems it recognizes the drive has a problem, it also recognized the drive is unallocated

[Master Disaster]

Just now, mayapaya15 said:

Okay, booted into gparted and it shows me this, it seems it recognizes the drive has a problem

Yeah, I/O error is not good. I'd be confident in saying the drive is dead. Sorry.

[mayapaya15]

1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

Yeah, I/O error is not good. I'd be confident in saying the drive is dead. Sorry.

Can I do anything to bring it back? Like format it? 

[mayapaya15]

2 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Yeah, I/O error is not good. I'd be confident in saying the drive is dead. Sorry.

I edited my reply, maybe more information? 

[Master Disaster]

18 minutes ago, mayapaya15 said:

I edited my reply, maybe more information? 

Oh, hang on a minute.

 

Yeah it might be fine. The problem is with SDA1 which is a partition, SDA is the drive label. Try to format it and see if it works or fails.

 

In GParted you have to actually click Apply after making changes for it to do anything.