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Failed Hard Drive - No Bootable Devices found!! Advice please!
My SSD hardrive failed in my Dell Inspiron 15 laptop a few weeks ago with a "No Bootable Devices Found" error message at startup BIOS.
I was hoping some of you have experience salvaging data in these type of situations.
What I've tried
- I tried loading Ubuntu on a thumb drive to try to access the hard drive -- no go. The drive did not show up in the devices list.
- I tried reconnecting the hardrive drive from the labtop in case there was a faulty connection and to reset the drive, no go.
- I tried using SATA to usb cable to see if I can clone the drive, but the drive is not being read. It shows the Cable interface is connected with 0MB connected to it.
- When booting, I could not find the drive in the list. When I used ubuntu via USB, the usb did show up and was booted from.
Questions
- Does windows 10 have any security features which would prevent ubuntu from reading the hard drive?
What Happened Prior To Failure
- I was connecting a new vizio tv to the laptop via hdmi 2 when I noticed the drive began to be sluggish. Task manager showed 100 percent memory disk usage so I rebooted while it was in this state. Never got it running again. The initial boot a memory test ran and showed no errors were preset. The boots that followed showed no bootable devices found.
Hard Drive
- The Hard Drive in question is a LITEON SATA SSD 512 GB
- Windows 10
- Dell Inspiron 15
I know this is a long shot, but figured I'd ask to see if I can somehow manually salvage the data. If I can't find a solution myself, I might have to send it off to a data retrieval company, which is very expensive. Any advice?
Attached are a few error messages and the hard drive information.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2U6lSEG_3j9V2ZmdFlOVzVTRms
IMG_20171013_124233.jpg - Google Drive
IMG_20171013_124248.jpg - Google Drive