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san2222

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Missing hard drive partition? [SOLVED]

I updated to 6.6.5 kernel and WiFi was not working and was unable to  shutdown nor reboot (maybe this issue). I had to hard shutdown the system and now on rebooting I get :

error: no such device: 14BC-BB61
error: file '/EFI/grub_uefi/grubx64.efi' not found.

Did i destroy my hard drive?

I have Mint installed on another drive. From its lsblk  I get:

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM    SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda      8:0    0 1023.8M  0 disk
sdb      8:16   0   74.5G  0 disk
├─sdb1   8:17   0    512M  0 part /boot/efi
└─sdb2   8:18   0     74G  0 part /
sdc      8:32   0  232.9G  0 disk
├─sdc1   8:33   0    529M  0 part
├─sdc2   8:34   0     99M  0 part
├─sdc3   8:35   0     16M  0 part
├─sdc4   8:36   0  208.6G  0 part
└─sdc5   8:37   0    653M  0 part

As you can see sda was the drive that had Arch on it but now there's no root partition.
Thanks

Last edited by san2222 (2023-12-12 08:43:57)

ewaller

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Re: Missing hard drive partition? [SOLVED]

What is the output of lsblk -f  ??

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san2222

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Re: Missing hard drive partition? [SOLVED]

Here's the output:

NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda                                                                         
sdb                                                                         
├─sdb1
│    vfat   FAT32       6A17-2FAA                             504.9M     1% /boot/efi
└─sdb2
     ext4   1.0         e10f2a1f-decd-4fe5-83e5-8b5571a7674b   27.4G    57% /
sdc                                                                         
├─sdc1
│    ntfs               2E70EBF470EBC127                                   
├─sdc2
│    vfat   FAT32       869C-44E2                                           
├─sdc3
│                                                                           
├─sdc4
│    ntfs         Windows
│                       D0789D53789D38E4                                   
└─sdc5
     ntfs               3290318090314B9B

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Missing hard drive partition? [SOLVED]

Can gdisk find the backup partition table?

# gdisk /dev/sda

It should offer to restore the table if it can.

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san2222

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Re: Missing hard drive partition? [SOLVED]

Tried that just now:

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.8

Partition table scan:
  MBR: not present
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: not present

Creating new GPT entries in memory.

Command (? for help):

The cursor blinks after the last line. Should I restart and check?

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Missing hard drive partition? [SOLVED]

It would have told you it was recovering if it found the backup table.

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san2222

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Re: Missing hard drive partition? [SOLVED]

When I type "p", it shows:

Disk /dev/sda: 2096640 sectors, 1023.8 MiB
Model: SM59XT2A-10-0080
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): D82407B7-AA3C-44E1-9C50-BC493805638E
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 2096606
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2096573 sectors (1023.7 MiB)

Since gdisk found nothing, I assume this SSD is dead. I don't care about the data but I wished I could revive it. Thanks anyways.

EDIT: I took the drive out and reconnected it. It now shows up with all the partitions.

Last edited by san2222 (2023-12-12 07:30:26)

seth

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Re: Missing hard drive partition? [SOLVED]

PSA: 3rd link below. Mandatory.
Disable it (it's NOT the BIOS setting!) and reboot windows and linux twice for voodo reasons.

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SeagullFish

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Re: Missing hard drive partition? [SOLVED]

EDIT: I took the drive out and reconnected it. It now shows up with all the partitions.

Very well! Looks like this was all about a minor hardware issue, although luckily nothing was broken. Then maybe you could change the status of this thread to [SOLVED], now?