Hi guys, today my pc freezed so I reset and since then it only boots to bios or to black screen that said no media available. I tried to create a Windows 11 bootable usb, but I have an old Mac so I can’t install wonderiso. I tried to create from terminal and not sure it worked because nothing happened. I reset bios and even update it and it didn’t help.

I fear that my ssd died but I don’t know how to make sure in the current condition. Any suggestions? what should I do?

I have an ssd replacement but not sure my bootable usb is working. Any advice will be welcomed.

Edit: actually the problem is bigger because I have 2 ssd and on hdd set on my pc (and another on laying around the house lol) I don’t know on which ssd the windows is installed

  • DeriHunter@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Thank you this help me a bit, I was able to get to the shell and found the ssd windows was installed on, but I see only BLK0 no fs or MBR, I’m fucked right?

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      1 year ago

      if there’s no boot partition detected then the only thing I can think of would be to use a linux boot disk with ddrescue/etc on it to see if anything is recoverable - if it doesnt detect anything then yeah, it’s fucked.

      I’d break the pins & get a different ssd, something that fails in such a fashion is not dependable (it is prone to failing again)

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        1 year ago

        I don’t care about anything on it,this one only had windows installed on. Your probably right at least I know it’s the disk now. I still think I’ll try to get a windows bootable just to see what happens, but probably will replace it with my other ssd

        Thanks for the help!