Can't boot into SSD

[sleek flower]

These are some details

[true geyser]

ok first off you can screenshot with win + shift + s

i dont know anything else abt this i just thought i'd mention that

[sleek flower]

Im on my phone

And it's hiren boot iso for troubleshooting

[hasty niche]

can you read the contents of the disk?
like, browse and open any files in it?

[sleek flower]

Nope

[hasty niche]

one thing is not being able to boot it
it is an entirely different thing not being able to open any file within

much worse

[sleek flower]

I see

Im fine with clean install of any OS but its not allowing me to install any OS as well

[hasty niche]

I am not an expert beyond this point, my guess it that it's cooked
you could try reformatting it but you'll obviously lose whatever you have still stored in it

[hasty niche]

it's over then

if all your pc can do is acknowledge the disk, but not open nor read what's in it, it's over

[sleek flower]

Can't format

It's 2 year old disk

[hasty niche]

IF you had any sensitive data you may need to get professional technical help

[sleek flower]

Can a malware do this shit?

[hasty niche]

the SSD market is a big one, there exist a ton of manufaacturers of varying degrees of quality

some SSDs may last very little

Stunner_619 also mentioned

depends if it's a REAL SSD, or a soldered-on piece of CRAP called Universal Flash Storage (UFS)

[sleek flower]

It's from lapcare, if you heave ever heard of it.....

[hasty niche]

never

[sleek flower]

@hasty niche so should I order a new SSD?

[hasty niche]

but I'm not the most knowledgable persson aabout SSDs either

[hasty niche]

unless you're fine not using your PC

[sleek flower]

Man my hdd from 2018 is still working and this SSD just got borked

[sleek flower]

I mean I had to do some important work 💀

Either I send this to a technician or get a new SSD and move on

[hasty niche]

like I said above, it's a big market with maaaaany manufacturer companies (many chinese cheap ones, for instance)

[sleek flower]

Can I get a SSD from samsung?

[sleek flower]

Yea the hdd is from default manufacturer (dell) and SSD was later on installed

[hasty niche]

my SSDs are from Corsair, Western Digital and Gigabyte

[sleek flower]

I tried installing windows and fedora linux. Nothing worked

[hasty niche]

all have worked me for over two years so I recommend those brands

dunno about Samsung I don't really trust them

but that is just my opinion ofc

[sleek flower]

I just want to ask

Can a malware brick SSD like this?

[hasty niche]

I'm not sure, I don't delve into hacking 😛

it's possible I guessss

[sleek flower]

Maybe it bricked firmware

So basically what happened is

I suspected yesterday that some malware was there in pc cause I was downloading something

So I decided to reinstall my windows again

It was all okay in morning

Until I checked my pc again in evening and suddenly BSOD appeared

Since then, the situation is same

[barren tulip]

boot up a linux live usb u can also run SMART tests from its included DISKS app (in a 3 dot menu icon) in such app

[sleek flower]

I did

From fedora live iso

I also have sysrescue iso

[barren tulip]

if you have Windows pc, and can test this drive as a guinea pig, use a piece of software called "Validrive" from gibson research. I think it may run from Hirens environment also if u download it

you may also research the suspected malware, and read any reported symptoms it causes. I dont really think malware did the drive in though.

[sleek flower]

Oh really?

If it's not malware then it's still better. I could just replace new ssd

[barren tulip]

ADATA SU- series is good from my experience, as is Crucial BX- series I've heard

[sleek flower]

I will have to check for malware

[sleek flower]

There are two drives there

One is hdd and other is ssd

[barren tulip]

validrive only tests flash memory storage

[sleek flower]

SSD is cooked pretty much but I'm worried for hdd

[barren tulip]

so the SSD

[sleek flower]

Wait let me check

@barren tulip it says, it's not compatible

With windows PE

[barren tulip]

oh

[sleek flower]

@barren tulip there is also a tool called HD tune

[barren tulip]

just install Linux on part of the HDD, and at least you'll be able to have an OS

nah

[sleek flower]

Im scanning through it

[sleek flower]

Manual partitioning ahh

[barren tulip]

you may use Aomei Partition Assistant (included on Hirens) to shrink part of the HDD now

eg: 50 GiB is reasonable for Linux. not glorious, but reasonable

[sleek flower]

Can I send this pc for repair?

[barren tulip]

so if u have at least that much free space on a partition of the HDD, shrink the partition by 50

[barren tulip]

i would just take the SSD out

[sleek flower]

1 tb hdd free space almost 950 💀

Yea I have space for that

[barren tulip]

if u have tons of money to throw around , go to repair shop

[barren tulip]

yeah so even shrink by 100 GB then

whatever.

[sleek flower]

Not tons of money but he is my father's friend

And the same shopkepper I bought this pc

[barren tulip]

hdd isn't too insanely slow . i've been using some hdd in live mode for testing

[sleek flower]

It's not about speed anymore

Im just thinking how will I remove linux later on?

[barren tulip]

so... i recommend what i said. shrink, install linux then work on your tasks

[barren tulip]

it's not that hard.

[sleek flower]

Thanks,I will look into it

Anyways there is only one question, how can I determine this SSD has been bricked by malware ot it's just normal SSD failure

[barren tulip]

pretend this is your HDD

[sleek flower]

No, it's okay I will install fedora on it since I have the iso

[barren tulip]

pretend there's a partition before those, called sda0 (that's your existing data there)

fine the same applies to fedora

u make shrink first

then add an EFI partition to the space (size shown above)

then add an ext4 or btrfs partition to the free space (mount at / ... can be like 50 to 99.5 GiB)

[sleek flower]

And what about the already stored data?

[barren tulip]

i just said example below pic

[sleek flower]

Anyways my main concern is this

[barren tulip]

take it in for testing n research the suspected malware i said

if u think the UEFI is compromised, then get new bios from manufacture of motherboard/pc website, and reflash fresh BIOS

take the 'dead' hard drive out immediately

treat it as a virus zombie

[sleek flower]

I can enter into bios and do everything

[barren tulip]

put it into a ziplock bag

[sleek flower]

@barren tulip my hdd is working normally

No issue so far

[barren tulip]

i meant take the sick/dead SSD out immediately

I'm busy again now so dont tag

[sleek flower]

Ok

Ping me when you are free

[graceful plinth]

send it to drivesavers or another data recovery service and buy a new ssd from Lexar

[sleek flower]

Im buying new ssd

This time from a legit brand

Anyways, I'm scanning my pc via Kaspersky rescue tool

To check if my uefi is compromised or not

[nimble snow]

These are reputable manufacturers, plus these one(s) I use since years: kingston, crucial, sandisk, adata. samsung is also good, but overrated and overpriced, I think.
@sleek flower Check if the new model offer SMART - not all do that.

[sleek flower]

I am looking out for WD

[true geyser]

can confirm about WD and sandisk, my SSDs are WD and my flash drive is sandisk

[sleek flower]

Yea I also have sandisk USB drive