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pouridev

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Registered: 2021-03-10

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Can't find hdd drives after Arch update

as said in the title, I updated my Arch after a while and it broke. My screen blacked out after update being done. After force shutdown it put me into emergency mode and after the second force shutdown I couldn't even use grub. Fortunately I had dual booting with windows on ssd drive. I booted windows up and saw that my whole hdd drive is gone. what should I do now?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Can't find hdd drives after Arch update

If your HDD died to the point of being invisible to Windows (and the UEFI ?) then you are having hardware issues that have no relation to Arch.

If you want any form of a proper diagnosis, boot a Arch live disk, check whether you see the drive there, if you do not post a dmesg which might show  some errors, if you do check whether your partitions are present, run a SMART test on the drive and post the output of

smartctl -a

after the test run elapsed. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

In general running forced shutdowns is never a good idea and if you have any way of restarting "safely" you should try those first: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Keyboa … el_(SysRq)

mpan

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Registered: 2012-08-01

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Re: Can't find hdd drives after Arch update

Plese describe the situation. From the above information it’s not even clear, how many disks you have. In what way the “whole HDD” is gone? How do you determined it “is gone”?

Making some, possibly wrong, assumptions: that sounds more like a hardware failure of a SSD than anything related to software.

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pouridev

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Registered: 2021-03-10

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Re: Can't find hdd drives after Arch update

Yes the hdd is not visible in windows. but it was all good before the update..
I have two disks: ssd which is what windows installed on and hdd which was my storage + arch

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Can't find hdd drives after Arch update

If your HDD is on the verge of dying any writes being done to it could be the final nail in the coffin, whether Arch or Windows did those writes is irrelevant. But in general there's too little information here to make any assertions. Where exactly are you looking whether Windows still detects the thing and did you check your EFI/BIOS on whether it has evidence of the disk existing?