I cannot get further than GRUB except to rescue mode, when I attempt to boot the main Fedora OS it gets stuck on searching for a disk indefinitely. Gets stuck on Job dev-disk-by\<many symbols>.device/start running (1h / no limit) in the console.

I have a Windows partition on same drive, it also doesn’t boot, it’s rescue command prompt (from where you are instructed to open notepad to rescue files) doesn’t “see” any disk but C: and X: (emerg boot).

I tried booting this machine with two live OS USBs: Fedora and SystemRescue. Neither of them list the SSD (or anything but the USB drive FS itself) in lsblk or the file manager.

Due to lack of storage mediums, I haven’t done a backup in a while. How can I rescue the files? Many passwords are also stuck there, in Firefox manager I wasn’t able to sync due to losing access to the 2FA email.

  • nitroemdash@lemmy.wtfOP
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    5 hours ago

    Latest DMESG logs are several days old, I’m not sure I had this problem back then. Nothing seems to be useful there, standard USB connect/disconnect stuff.

    I enabled S.M.A.R.T. in BIOS, it seems it doesn’t see an issue with the drive (PredictFailure in wmic is FALSE)

    PhotoRec and TestDisk do not see the disk when booted from live media, only the 15GB drive itself and 804MB loop0.