Arch Linux

FearTheDragon

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Registered: 2020-04-11

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Arch randomly deleted itself

I was just browsing youtube when all of the sudden, files started to close, my background turned blue, every single one of my apps started to die, etc etc. I used arch on an external SSD, and when I tried to boot it again, my computer did not detect a bootable drive. I went onto my arch usb and I used fdisk -1, and it simply did not detect any usb bootable from it, yet on my windows partition it detected a usb drive, although no files nor it's name showed up.

Am I just screwed? Is there any way to try and salvage this? I would be grateful for any advice at all.

Praxis88

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Registered: 2019-11-19

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Re: Arch randomly deleted itself

Can you see it from a live USB?

FearTheDragon

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Registered: 2020-04-11

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Re: Arch randomly deleted itself

I can not, unfortunately...

Praxis88

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Re: Arch randomly deleted itself

It sounds like your drive or the usb to sata device has died

FearTheDragon

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Re: Arch randomly deleted itself

Dang... is there any way to recover it?

Praxis88

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Re: Arch randomly deleted itself

I would hook the SSD into an actual sata port on a computer, and pray that it's whatever usb:sata adapter you're using that has died

FearTheDragon

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Re: Arch randomly deleted itself

Ok so, it can detect that something is plugged in, but I don't think it has a file drive anymore. For example, when I plug it into windows, it says that I plugged in a drive, yet nothing shows on files. On any data recovery software, that drive just doesn't show up.

Am I screwed? Should I just give up? ;-;

(I'm sorry, I have no idea how to plug anything into a sata port, etc...)

Praxis88

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Re: Arch randomly deleted itself

Windows can't read Linux file systems anyways. Even if your data were there it wouldn't show anything.

At this point you just need to determine what part has died the actual drive or the adapter you're using. So if you're using a laptop it would be physically opening the laptop and trying to plug in the hard drive inside the laptop or if you're using a desktop the same thing. If you do this and then you can see it from a live USB it means you're adapter has died if you do this and you can't see it from a live USB it means the drive is dead

And if I see it I mean open a terminal and run lsblk and see if you can see the partitions on it

Last edited by Praxis88 (2022-05-22 11:57:40)