[tde-users] Re: how to find & format a lost SSD?

-- On 08/09/2024 07:18, William Morder via tde-users wrote: > > On Saturday 07 September 2024 10:26:55 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote: >> On Sat, 7 Sep 2024 08:53:54 -0700 >> >> William Morder via tde-usersusers@trinitydesktop.org wrote: >>> My internal 2 tb SSD has suddenly become "locked"; even though I myself >>> didn't lock it. The good people at Mc$haft started nagging me about >>> enabling UEFI partitioning, but I had managed to get round that by using >>> grub instead. >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> This newer SSD, where for the past couple >>> years I have had my system installed, been running fine, will not boot at >>> all. >> Is this a Samsung SSD? The reason I ask is that they've had issues >> recently: some 970/980/990 SSDs were shipped with bad firmware that causes >> them to age and die prematurely. A firmware update was published, but it >> only prevents further premature aging and doesn't fix drives that have >> already died, from what I understand. (There are also rumours of some >> batches of 870 EVOs being flaky, but I don't think that was ever confirmed >> by the manufacturer.) >> >> If your drive is one of the affected Samsung models, you may be out of >> luck, although your description of the failure doesn't match the most >> common manifestation of this issue, which has the drive dropping to >> read-only. >> >> E. Liddell > I am replying here, as this was the last response that I got; not ignoring > Felix, Nik, et al. > > Well, so I went across town and dug out my SATA/SSD connector tools out of > storage. It turns out that I have not just one, but two of them, and they are > both USB 3.0, so I assume that they are pretty up-to-date, even though I > haven't used them at all in a couple years. They have just been sitting tight > in a sealed plastic bag. > > Neither of these SSDs are recognized by my machine, using either connector. > (Don't know what they are properly called, but there is a picture in that > links that Felix sent: > > https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-rcuc-16001/p/N82E16812119874 > https://web.archive.org/web/20240907172904/https://www.newegg.com/rosewill-r... > > Mine look pretty much the same, except my brands are, respectively, StarTech > and Sabrent. > > The internal SSDs are, respectively, a Samsung 2 tb, 970 EVO Plus, and the > factory-installed 128 gb SSD, don't know a brand name, other than that it > shipped installed with a Lenovo Ideapad 3.15 laptop, and was never used. > > Only when this Samsung 2 tb SSD started misbehaving, then I tried out the > factory-installed SSD, and that only seemed to make things worse, as now I > cannot use either one, nor even get my machine to recognize them. > > When the Samsung is installed as the internal drive in my system, it is > locked, and I cannot get into my system at all; When the factory SSD is > installed as the internal drive, I get the startup menu trying to get me to > register my "new" machine, which is now of course at least 2 years old. > > It may be that I can take these drives to somebody who knows better, and get > them wiped clean, reformatted, breathe some new life into them. Otherwise, > this 2 tb Samsung is a waste of money and time, as I just barely managed to > back up all my data (and not as organized and neatly as I would like) before > everything went to hell. > > At present I have install my entire system on a 256 gb flash drive, complete > with root, swap and home partitions, with no internal hard drive at all. I > boot from grub, and superstitiously avoiding UEFI and everything from > Mc$haft, the rotten Apple, or other similar places of origin. > > Any ideas about how to proceed are welcome. I can look around for a new > laptop, but I think that it will just be more of the same. I hesitate to put > another SSD in my machine, as I fear that I will get caught in that same > endless loop again. > > Well, at least I didn't lose any data, and all my work is still intact. I am > once again considering how feasible it would be to move into a cave up in the > mountains, buying a solar panel setup, using stone tools, and living as a > hermit. > > Bill > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list --users@trinitydesktop.org > To unsubscribe send an email tousers-leave@trinitydesktop.org > Web mail archive available athttps://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskto...