- Jan 11, 2018
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Hello everyone
So today I had the magical idea to cut the power to my computer when Ubuntu was still trying to load after 20 mins.
After that I couldn't boot the computer at all. All I saw was a black screen and a single horizontal cursor.
I have access to the BIOS but nothing beyong. Same effect with or without the graphics card or RAM.
After a lot of time and some nice help on twitter (see whole thread), we concluded that the disk was dead.
To resume, all that smartctl could see is basically nothing except that the disk is 20Mb (120Gb in reality) and that SMART can't be enabled (see full output).
Gparted sees the disk but only find 20Mb of unallocated space and no partition table. But neither gparted nor cfdisk couldn't create a new partition table...
The disk is a 120Gb Corsair Force LS.
So considering that, is the disk completely dead or is there something I could do ?
I only realize now that I am typing this that there was my main data partition on that disk, not just Ubuntu...
But also have other questions :
My computer has 3 disks : 1 HD with only data, 1 SSD with Win10, 1 SSD with Ubuntu
It's the one with Ubuntu who died but why can't I boot with windows, even when the dead drive is removed ?
Also when I unplug the HD (with is supposedly only data (it contains a single NTFS partition)), the computer ask to insert a bootable drive and restart, but not when the other disks are removed ?
Finally, this append because I cut the power during Ubuntu startup, how can this "damage" a disk like that ?
So thanks you for reading, and thanks you if you can lead me to some things to do to try to recover the drive.
Florent
So today I had the magical idea to cut the power to my computer when Ubuntu was still trying to load after 20 mins.
After that I couldn't boot the computer at all. All I saw was a black screen and a single horizontal cursor.
I have access to the BIOS but nothing beyong. Same effect with or without the graphics card or RAM.
After a lot of time and some nice help on twitter (see whole thread), we concluded that the disk was dead.
To resume, all that smartctl could see is basically nothing except that the disk is 20Mb (120Gb in reality) and that SMART can't be enabled (see full output).
Gparted sees the disk but only find 20Mb of unallocated space and no partition table. But neither gparted nor cfdisk couldn't create a new partition table...
The disk is a 120Gb Corsair Force LS.
So considering that, is the disk completely dead or is there something I could do ?
I only realize now that I am typing this that there was my main data partition on that disk, not just Ubuntu...
But also have other questions :
My computer has 3 disks : 1 HD with only data, 1 SSD with Win10, 1 SSD with Ubuntu
It's the one with Ubuntu who died but why can't I boot with windows, even when the dead drive is removed ?
Also when I unplug the HD (with is supposedly only data (it contains a single NTFS partition)), the computer ask to insert a bootable drive and restart, but not when the other disks are removed ?
Finally, this append because I cut the power during Ubuntu startup, how can this "damage" a disk like that ?
So thanks you for reading, and thanks you if you can lead me to some things to do to try to recover the drive.
Florent
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