SSD Problems

[Fake Deemon©]

Hi everyone!

 

Recently my moms laptop stopped working and turning it on would result in: "NO BOOTABLE DEVICE DETECTED" going into boot manager no drive of two ( one intel 120gb SSD and one Toshiba HDD 1TB) were detected.

I went ahead and removed the drives and plugged the ssd into my PC. After booting i went into disk manager and it sure was detected as drive, disk manager asked me how i wanted to initialise it either in MBR or GPT, selecting GPT i got the error message it wasn't big enough for a GPT drive strange right? So i selected MBR and went ahead. Now i have a "Disk 1" with 7Mb disk space... What do i do now? I cant create a partition and since its not partitioned it cant be detected by any recovery program. 

 

Thanks!

 

Edit: SSD is from Intels 320 series. No physical Damage is noticeable but i haven't opened the drive.

 

 

Edited August 23, 2017 by Fake Deemon©

[paddy-stone]

IMO you would be better off putting the SSD back into the laptop to save you making errors on your PC.

Anyway, you could download GParted -- Live CD/USB/PXE/HD

Boot up the laptop from gparted, wipe the SSD, I'm guessing that's what you were going to do when you took the SSD into the PC?

Then re-install windows, if that is what you were going to do? - You may want to unplug the 1TB drive before re-installing just  to save problems.

 

You could have tried manually booting from the SSD, by pressing f11 at boot and choosing the drive as the boot device maybe. Not sure if you can still do that, as I don't have enough info.. not sure which drives in the pic are the laptops and whihc are your PCs.

[Fake Deemon©]

46 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

IMO you would be better off putting the SSD back into the laptop to save you making errors on your PC.

Anyway, you could download GParted -- Live CD/USB/PXE/HD

Boot up the laptop from gparted, wipe the SSD, I'm guessing that's what you were going to do when you took the SSD into the PC?

Then re-install windows, if that is what you were going to do? - You may want to unplug the 1TB drive before re-installing just  to save problems.

 

You could have tried manually booting from the SSD, by pressing f11 at boot and choosing the drive as the boot device maybe. Not sure if you can still do that, as I don't have enough info.. not sure which drives in the pic are the laptops and whihc are your PCs.

I only need the files from the ssd. We're not gonna keep using that laptop. Only the middle drive is from the laptop the rest are my own.

[paddy-stone]

5 minutes ago, Fake Deemon© said:

I only need the files from the ssd. We're not gonna keep using that laptop. Only the middle drive is from the laptop the rest are my own.

Well, sorry to say this, but by initialising the disk you erased it's contents.

[Fake Deemon©]

28 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

Well, sorry to say this, but by initialising the disk you erased it's contents.

So no way to get anything back?

[paddy-stone]

48 minutes ago, Fake Deemon© said:

So no way to get anything back?

I very much doubt it. There might be ways, but they are most likely complicated and/or time consuming and you're still not guaranteed it will succeed. Maybe someone else will know though, I am not overly concerned with that myself as I have multiple backup options that I take advantage of.

 

I recommend for the future that you or your mom make backups of any data that you would consider important and wouldn't want to lose. There are many cloud based backup options, I use these myself, even with the other backups I have, for document backups mostly, so that files/folders I use regualrly on my PC oe newly created ones get backed up regularly. Then it is very easy to replace lost files in the event of a breakdown, and even access the files from a different platform, such as a phone/tablet.

The ones I use most often for everyday files, are dropbox, google drive and crashplan... all of the basic services are free for all of those.

 

Sorry I couldn't be of help in this matter, I hope the files weren't too important that your mom lost.

[Ace McPlane]

Yea, you erased the contents of the drive when you initialized it. There are ways of recovering data after it being deleted but it's not worth it. That's more for like looking for evidence since only a tiny piece of each file is left behind even after deleting them.

 

Anyways, I bet all that was wrong was a loose connection on the data cable going to the drive in the laptop so yea, I'd fire it back in there and try to initialize it again from the laptop instead of potentially creating problems trying to do it from a different PC.

[snickerpop]

I'd see maybe if you can use something like testdisk or photorec to recover the partition that you lost

Here is some information:http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

 

In the future it would be a good idea to backup