[TriEmbed] Laptop crash

[Jeff Davies]

I had a similar problem on two drives in the last year and’s while I’m
familiar with recovering/reconstructing the MBR I was not successful and
only learned about GPT afterwards. My guess is these drives were most
likely GPT without a protective MBR. The protective MBR which allows MBR
tools to read the GPT disk.

In the end, data on both drives was lost but I had recently backed up one
drive and the other drive was scratch space for video editing.

I think Dell has exclusively configured drives with GPT when they moved to
UEFI which may have been as far back as 2013…  I didn’t find out until
2021!!

Important reminder to regularly perform backups!!



On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 8:16 PM Michael Monaghan via TriEmbed <
triembed at triembed.org> wrote:

> 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 <
> triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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