#SSD detected but unusable

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river frost
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I recently got a t480 thinkpad with no OS on it. It used to be a company work laptop and was working before but now its got no OS on it and when I use an arch, ubuntu, or windows bootable install media to install a new OS on the SSD inside of this thing it shows the SSD as 0B and wont let me do anything with it. I have no idea. I tested a spare nvme ssd I had as well as the NVME SSD that the laptop came with and both of them dont work. I tried different install medias in different ports, tried different bios settings but cant figure this out.

PLEASE help

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river frost
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river frost
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aight my bad

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just raw dmesg?

dim crag
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Yes, thanks

river frost
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im running the live usb of arch on it so I am not sure how to copy it out of that

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river frost
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OK bro that website is SICK

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river frost
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yea

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I checked a few times it should be good I see no damage and everything is seated properly

dim crag
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My guess is it looks like this your disk inserter?

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river frost
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yea

dim crag
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Ok, because that cable looks like something that can go very wrong over time

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Especially on the motherboard side

river frost
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the thing is it was an old company laptop and the IT guy ran it when I was at the office yesterday

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and it bootedup

dim crag
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(Your dmesg does not even show a clue that you would have this disk)

river frost
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so like there is still a chance that the cable broke between now and yesterday?

river frost
dim crag
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So either it is power problems, cable problems or disk are absolute toasted

river frost
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shows it i think

dim crag
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Ok? Can you try show me that output?

river frost
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yea 1 sec

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its short output but sdb is probably the ssd since there is no other storage plugged into this thing

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other than the arch usb and the ssd

dim crag
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I think the sdb are your SD card reader based on:

[   12.346337] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic- SD/MMC           1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[   12.348375] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Media removed, stopped polling
river frost
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but it shows as 0B

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wtf

dim crag
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Yeah, because no disk are inserted

river frost
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ok so its just not detecting it then which is weird cause yesterday afternoon it was fine

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the ssd that is

dim crag
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Yeah, so I would think it is a cable problem

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(I can see the laptop does not seem to have a SD card reader? So yeah... that makes it more strange)

river frost
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it does i think

dim crag
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Ah it does actually. Found another spec sheet 🙂

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Then yes, the sdb are your card header 😛

river frost
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river frost
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hmmmmm

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i really dont wanna order a new part and wait another few days

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let me see

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if its cooked

dim crag
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Do you have another computer where you can test the disks?

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So you at least know the disks are fine

river frost
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the disks work

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100%

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i tested with 3

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and i know 2 work for certain

dim crag
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Ok yeah... then the question becomes the cable or the motherboard

river frost
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yea thats how i did it when i was testing my other ssds

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on it

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the cable looks fine

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but idk if its busted on the inside i guess

dim crag
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Yeah. I guess there are no stupid BIOS options to disable the disk controller 😛

river frost
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even on the BIOS i dont see the drives so its not even an os thing

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yea

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hmmm

river frost
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river frost
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on this laptops bios too

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but nothing storage related on here

dim crag
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Ok, I must then say I have no more advice to provide 🙁

river frost
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kk thanks will wait