Outage occurred while using Acronis TI cloning; now SSD isn't recognized as a disk.
Outage occurred while using Acronis TI cloning; now SSD isn't recognized as a disk.
I have a used Dell with an i5 processor that I attempted to upgrade to an SSD. While cloning with Acronis, the system stalled because it detected bad sectors on the old HDD. I chose to ignore all errors and let it run. Over time, I checked occasionally, but it didn’t seem to complete. Eventually, the power supply failed, and the SSD stopped showing up in disks when connected via the internal SATA cable—though it still works with the old HDD. When plugged into a USB port, it appears as ejectable media. In devices and printers, it’s listed under ASM1153EUSB3.0TOSATA, but that might just be related to the cable. The SSD isn’t visible in the BIOS either. I found a mention about an Mx500 SSD running Windows 10 being fixable in Linux (though I’m not familiar with it). What else should I try? TIA
If it doesn't appear in BIOS, that's a red flag. Usually Linux can resolve issues in BIOS but not in Windows; if it never shows up in BIOS at all, I'd be worried. To fix drives, I usually boot into an Ubuntu USB, use gparted to select the problematic drive, then go to Device → Create Partition Table and choose GPT. This should list it as a clean empty drive in Windows, but if it's missing from BIOS, it likely won't show up in Linux either.