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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Re: Laptop crash (Michael Monaghan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:05:54 -0400 From: "The MacDougals" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: [TriEmbed] Laptop crash Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.triembed.org/pipermail/triembed_triembed.org/attachments/202110 10/a10b7471/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 19:20:20 -0400 From: Dwight Morgan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Laptop crash Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 10, 2021, at 6:06 PM, The MacDougals via TriEmbed <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] List info: > http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and > send a blank message: > mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.triembed.org/pipermail/triembed_triembed.org/attachments/202110 10/4a03eca3/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 20:04:27 -0400 From: Josh Wyatt <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: TriEmbed <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Laptop crash Message-ID: <CAAycYbxfc_m=triY5j93qcB0z1mBX8Pok+ybaTL98mBy=q-...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 < [email protected]> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] List info: > http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and > send a blank message: mailto: > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.triembed.org/pipermail/triembed_triembed.org/attachments/202110 10/5a89b85f/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 20:16:14 -0400 From: Michael Monaghan <[email protected]> To: Triangle Embedded Computing Discussion <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Laptop crash Message-ID: <CAGToJnZ=riiuqjhxanprv7gklciie+ucwyheksdrx7ttokf...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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 <[email protected]> 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 < > [email protected]> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list >> >> To post message: [email protected] List info: >> http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org >> TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and >> send a blank message: mailto: >> [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe >> >> _______________________________________________ > Triangle, NC Embedded Computing mailing list > > To post message: [email protected] List info: > http://mail.triembed.org/mailman/listinfo/triembed_triembed.org > TriEmbed web site: http://TriEmbed.org To unsubscribe, click link and > send a blank message: mailto: > [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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