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 < [email protected]> 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 < > [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 >> >> _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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