This may be a similar thread to
this one, but the OP mentioned that the drive was not giving any error in Windows.
So I was asked by a friend to fix their internal HDD for me since their laptop was giving them
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Operating System not found
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after installing their Ubuntu system unto a live usb.
My initial findings were that their GPT/MBR partition is broken. I had to confirm this by mounting it on Windows via SATA to USB, but to no avail. It was spewing
so I tried initializing it, but it was spewing another error but I couldn't read it because it automatically closes after a split second, and I can't even get to capture it with print screen.
So I moved on to my live usb Debian, couldn't get it to mount and decided to run
photorec since it can scan storage devices even without mounting them and found a ton of Buffer I/O errors from different blocks:
Code:
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print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sdc, sector 17170 06 00
Buffer I/O on dec sdc, logical block 17170, async page read
Buffer I/O on dec sdc, logical block 17171, async page read00RIVER_SENSE
Buffer I/O on dec sdc, logical block 17172, async page read
Buffer I/O on dec sdc, logical block 17173, async page read
Buffer I/O on dec sdc, logical block 17174, async page read00
Buffer I/O on dec sdc, logical block 17175, async page read=DRIVER_SENSE
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=dRIVER_SENSE
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error 00 01 00
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdc] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 46 90 00 00 01 00
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and it goes on even before sector
17160 to
976772992 (I was only able to capture the bit above by my phone. there is a video I took and I'll add it later after I get back home)
I don't know if the fix from the somewhat similar thread can fix this, and I hope it could since I was told there were some archives needed by their parents this January.
P.S. I haven't tried doing
systemctl yet. I will do it later I get back home. I broke my precision screwdriver so I can't get into the laptop again, so I went out to buy one.
