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Originally Posted by Wim Sturkenboom
Because you stated I also noticed that in the Setup Utility under the Boot menu, the "IDE0" item no longer has a string of characters after it. And you don't have boot options
To see if there is any hope, I would start with dmesg |grep -i sd to see if the system sees the harddisk in some way. I would expect to see some info related to sda and sdb.
The next one to investigate is the command fdisk -l (that is lowercase L). Again you expect to see sda and sdb and it should give you the sizes of the SSD and the memory stick. You might need to put sudo in front of the command (sudo fdisk -l) to solve permission issues.
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Ok, so it doesn't look too good. There is no sdb...only sda, which looks to me like the USB stick.
I talked to Acer customer support and all they said was to get the data recovered (which they do not support) and then reinstall the operating system. I took the computer to Best Buy and they opened it up and found that the SSD has a proprietary connector, which would not enable them to interface with the drive, so they said it would cost at least $1,000...if even possible.
I don't know the first thing about hardware, but it seems to me - from the order of the events - that this drive is not physically damaged. Is there some way to overwrite the bootable portion of the memory (if there is such a thing with an SSD disk)?
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Originally Posted by soleil24
Then we move from the realms of hardware troubleshooting to forensic data recovery...
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Any ideas of things I could try?
Thanks!
PS - here is the output from the commands you suggested in case this helps:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dmesg | grep -i sd
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000FE020, 0024 (r2 ACRSYS)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: XSDT 3F4FE120, 0064 (r1 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 1 1000013)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 3F4F2000, 5DE6 (r1 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 1 1025 1000013)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 3F4FD000, 04C4 (r2 PmRef CpuPm 3000 INTL 20051117)
[ 0.022372] ACPI: Checking initramfs for custom DSDT
[ 0.649675] ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
[ 2.297152] ACPI: SSDT 3F380C90, 0239 (r2 PmRef Cpu0Ist 3000 INTL 20051117)
[ 2.297843] ACPI: SSDT 3F37FE10, 01C7 (r2 PmRef Cpu0Cst 3001 INTL 20051117)
[ 2.299339] ACPI: SSDT 3F380F10, 00D0 (r2 PmRef Cpu1Ist 3000 INTL 20051117)
[ 2.300014] ACPI: SSDT 3F37EF10, 0083 (r2 PmRef Cpu1Cst 3000 INTL 20051117)
[ 2.672462] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[ 8.595991] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 7856127 512-byte hardware sectors: (4.02 GB/3.74 GiB)
[ 8.596799] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 8.596810] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
[ 8.596818] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 8.598611] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 7856127 512-byte hardware sectors: (4.02 GB/3.74 GiB)
[ 8.599227] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 8.599236] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
[ 8.599243] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 8.599259] sda:
[ 8.600793] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 8.601046] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 43.662863] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
[ 43.662872] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
[ 43.667762] sdhci-pci 0000:04:00.0: SDHCI controller found [197b:2382] (rev 0)
[ 43.667806] sdhci-pci 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 43.667936] sdhci-pci 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 43.668215] mmc0: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:04:00.0] using ADMA
[ 43.668249] sdhci-pci 0000:04:00.2: SDHCI controller found [197b:2381] (rev 0)
[ 43.668288] sdhci-pci 0000:04:00.2: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[ 43.668308] sdhci-pci 0000:04:00.2: Refusing to bind to secondary interface.
[ 43.668327] sdhci-pci 0000:04:00.2: PCI INT A disabled
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 4022 MB, 4022337024 bytes
124 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7688 * 512 = 3936256 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x8ef631df
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 ? 274784 529564 979374166 66 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(734, 123, 14) logical=(274783, 70, 21)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(120, 143, 6) logical=(529563, 65, 22)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 ? 448668 961719 1972168331 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(187, 180, 14) logical=(448667, 16, 52)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(784, 0, 13) logical=(403059, 76, 1)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 ? 426615 680707 976730017 7d Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(252, 59, 46) logical=(426614, 84, 39)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(139, 118, 4) logical=(122048, 22, 28)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 ? 543622 544705 4161550 6f Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(370, 101, 50) logical=(543621, 57, 11)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(10, 114, 13) logical=(544704, 8, 44)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.