Put together a new box w/new mobo (MSI B650) last year and just put my old drives in -2 old but functional Kingston SSDs- and a WD HDD.
All good until last week. Apparently my daily driver Kingston failed, and consequently I can’t get anything to boot.
I believe I didn’t use UEFI while installing the old drives (hell, let’s be honest–it’s been so long since I built a box that I didn’t even KNOW about UEFI) and possibly need to create a UEFI-bootable disk, thumb drive, DVD, or what have you.
Apologies if this has been asked elsewhere, just finding my way around. And if you require other info, I’ll do my best to supply what’s missing.
Since you are posting at an Ubuntu forum, we expect you are using some specific release of Ubuntu or one of its derivatives. Post that information. Do you have an Linux on a USB drive that you can boot ‘live’ to gather information? If so, a first step would be to do that and open a terminal and run the following command and post the output here: sudo parted -l
What operating systems and versions did you have installed? What happened to make you think a hard drive failed? What exactly happens when you try to boot?
Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
2)OS msg saying I must do manual fsck and not booting from one SSD, not the other or the WD HDD
3)End up in the BIOS
Currently posting from an old box, so I’ll have to finish getting the USB drive transferred and hopefully running on the new one… May well not happen today.
If message is run fsck, then can you boot to grub menu and recovery mode. That gives menu with partitions unmounted, so you can run fsck or make other repairs. If BIOS install, you hold shift key from BIOS screen until grub menu appears. If UEFI, you press escape key just after UEFI screen, but before grub menu would appear to get grub menu.
Beside having good backups, you should have a live installer or repair/recovery flash drive or external drive(s) to make repairs.
Thank you for the assistance, sorry for the delayed response.
Now my second SSD has failed. I actually got the first repaired but it was only a brief resurrection. booted up once then failed (frozen).
I think my first mistake was just inserting the old drives–bios or grub booted–in the new build with a UEFI mobo.
Have ordered new thumb drives (failures in the old ones used to create startup disk) and a new nvme m2 SSD.
When they arrive I’ll try to create a startup disk anew and will report back.
There wasn’t a lot of data on either SSD so I’m not too concerned there. but there was a smallish collection of random pics and receipts foolishly not transferred to my WD HDD. Perhaps once I return to whatever passes for normal I will have an opportunity to try to pull files off the SSDs