Hi guys, today my pc freezed so I reset and since then it only boots to bios or to black screen that said no media available. I tried to create a Windows 11 bootable usb, but I have an old Mac so I can’t install wonderiso. I tried to create from terminal and not sure it worked because nothing happened. I reset bios and even update it and it didn’t help.

I fear that my ssd died but I don’t know how to make sure in the current condition. Any suggestions? what should I do?

I have an ssd replacement but not sure my bootable usb is working. Any advice will be welcomed.

Edit: actually the problem is bigger because I have 2 ssd and on hdd set on my pc (and another on laying around the house lol) I don’t know on which ssd the windows is installed

  • @tallwookieEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    ok so the first thing you want to do is to remove all storage drives, then hook up one ssd & see if it gets detected by the bios - and if it does, does it have a bootable partition on it? if not, remove it & switch to the other one & do the same thing.

    if neither is bootable, it may be that the bios is confused - reset it to factory defaults & try again. if it still does not boot then use your recovery disk to boot to a shell to determine which ssd has media that you’re going to have to lose, use fdisk to create a bootable partition, then reinstall the OS.

    if your recovery/boot disk doesnt work at all, buy a new usb disk & get someone else to create a boot disk from their computer.

    • @DeriHunterOPEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Thank you this help me a bit, I was able to get to the shell and found the ssd windows was installed on, but I see only BLK0 no fs or MBR, I’m fucked right?

      • @tallwookieEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        if there’s no boot partition detected then the only thing I can think of would be to use a linux boot disk with ddrescue/etc on it to see if anything is recoverable - if it doesnt detect anything then yeah, it’s fucked.

        I’d break the pins & get a different ssd, something that fails in such a fashion is not dependable (it is prone to failing again)

        • @DeriHunterOPEnglish
          2•2 years ago

          I don’t care about anything on it,this one only had windows installed on. Your probably right at least I know it’s the disk now. I still think I’ll try to get a windows bootable just to see what happens, but probably will replace it with my other ssd

          Thanks for the help!

  • Kofad
    3•2 years ago

    Does the drive appear in your BIOS setup panel? Did you check that a cable hasn’t come loose?

    • DeriHunter
      2•2 years ago

      Thanks for replying.
      I disconnected and reconnected both ssd’s cables.

      I just checked and I do see the ssd in the boot order

      I’m OP and this is my kbin account, since jerbora causing troubles for me right now