[TriEmbed] TriEmbed Digest, Vol 101, Issue 11

Sun Oct 10 20:46:00 CDT 2021

Most of the time the BIOS will tell if the drive is defective during startup
of Windows, it's a certain key combo to load into it, I think F2 or ESC, or
DEL. If BIOS does not detect the drive, then I would recommend to connect a
sata hard drive (either SSD or mechanical) then install Windows (don't have
to activate it) then see if it detects the m.2 drive to recover the data.
Even if Windows will not load to the M.2 you may be able to get the data
off, then installing Windows to SATA drive will work with the existing
digital key for activating Windows from the M.2 drive with original Windows
OS on it.  
Paul Rohrbaugh

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Today's Topics:

   1. Laptop crash (The MacDougals)
   2. Re: Laptop crash (Dwight Morgan)
   3. Re: Laptop crash (Josh Wyatt)
   4. Re: Laptop crash (Michael Monaghan)

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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:05:54 -0400
From: "The MacDougals" <paulmacd at acm.org>
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Subject: [TriEmbed] Laptop crash
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My laptop crashed.  It says no hard drive detected.  This is a Dell Inspiron
7370 laptop with an internal SSD.

Sata M.2 256GB.  Here is a listing on Ebay for a used one:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/333979414069

Does anyone have one of these (or compatible form factor) that I could try
putting into my machine to try

to determine if it is the drive or the motherboard that has failed?  Any
other ideas?

---> Paul

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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 19:20:20 -0400
From: Dwight Morgan <dwight.w.morgan at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Laptop crash
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I recovered files from my desktop crashed hard drive by making an Ubuntu
boot image on a thumb drive and it found my bad hard drive and files. I
saved them safely. I don?t remember all the details. It?s been a few years.
I know this isn?t exactly what you asked for but thought it might be
helpful. Good luck. 
Dwight 

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> On Oct 10, 2021, at 6:06 PM, The MacDougals via TriEmbed
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> ?
> My laptop crashed.  It says no hard drive detected.  This is a Dell
Inspiron 7370 laptop with an internal SSD.
> Sata M.2 256GB.  Here is a listing on Ebay for a used one:
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/333979414069
>  
> Does anyone have one of these (or compatible form factor) that I could 
> try putting into my machine to try to determine if it is the drive or the
motherboard that has failed?  Any other ideas?
>  
> ---> Paul
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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 20:04:27 -0400
From: Josh Wyatt <dragojdw at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Laptop crash
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You can get an external m.2 to USB-C enclosure. They're super useful.
Make sure it supports m.2 SATA, not just NVME.

Thanks,
Josh

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> My laptop crashed.  It says no hard drive detected.  This is a Dell 
> Inspiron 7370 laptop with an internal SSD.
>
> Sata M.2 256GB.  Here is a listing on Ebay for a used one:
>
> https://www.ebay.com/itm/333979414069
>
>
>
> Does anyone have one of these (or compatible form factor) that I could 
> try putting into my machine to try
>
> to determine if it is the drive or the motherboard that has failed?  
> Any other ideas?
>
>
>
> ---> Paul
>
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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 20:16:14 -0400
From: Michael Monaghan <mike at chipworks.net>
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Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Laptop crash
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Very likely the Master Boot Record has been overwritten.  What OS are you
running on?  There are several bootable recovery images that might help.

On Sun, Oct 10, 2021, 8:04 PM Josh Wyatt via TriEmbed
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> You can get an external m.2 to USB-C enclosure. They're super useful.
> Make sure it supports m.2 SATA, not just NVME.
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 6:06 PM The MacDougals via TriEmbed < 
> triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
>
>> My laptop crashed.  It says no hard drive detected.  This is a Dell 
>> Inspiron 7370 laptop with an internal SSD.
>>
>> Sata M.2 256GB.  Here is a listing on Ebay for a used one:
>>
>> https://www.ebay.com/itm/333979414069
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have one of these (or compatible form factor) that I 
>> could try putting into my machine to try
>>
>> to determine if it is the drive or the motherboard that has failed?  
>> Any other ideas?
>>
>>
>>
>> ---> Paul
>>
>>
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