Hard Drive or Partition Failure
by littlekatana from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5T6JM)
I woke my Dell Latitude e6530 laptop from sleep this afternoon, after having been watching movies the night before and transporting it through cold weather to the library, to find that no bootable devices were detected.
I tried reboots several times, received the same message.
I ran the onboard diagnostics which returned normal readings except for the hard drive, which it stated was not installed.
I was able to successfully load the boot menu, and chose Windows Boot Manager, as I had previously partitioned the hard disk. Windows booted successfully and I'm writing from it now.
So, there seems to be a hard drive installed after all, but the partition with Linux Mate 20 on it seems to have imploded, but the windows partition remains. Any ideas?
I will be trying more reboots and other things and will report back. Not sure what other info you might need, but as I can't load the Linux OS and the diagnostics returned little info, not sure what else I can offer.
I tried reboots several times, received the same message.
I ran the onboard diagnostics which returned normal readings except for the hard drive, which it stated was not installed.
I was able to successfully load the boot menu, and chose Windows Boot Manager, as I had previously partitioned the hard disk. Windows booted successfully and I'm writing from it now.
So, there seems to be a hard drive installed after all, but the partition with Linux Mate 20 on it seems to have imploded, but the windows partition remains. Any ideas?
I will be trying more reboots and other things and will report back. Not sure what other info you might need, but as I can't load the Linux OS and the diagnostics returned little info, not sure what else I can offer.