I had a laptop SSD suffer water damage. The rest of the laptop appears to work fine, however the SSD, a Kingston SNS8152S3256GG2, seems to have completely failed and the OS won't boot at all, so I am using a GParted live disk and connecting the SSD with a M.2 to USB device. gparted and fdisk -l do not show the device /dev/sda. gdisk /dev/sda has this output:
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1
Problem reading disk in BasicMBRData::ReadMBRData()!
Warning! Read error 22; strange behavior now likely!
Warning! Read error 22; strange behavior now likely!
Partition table scan:
MBR: MBR only
BSD: not present
APM: not present
GPT: not present
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Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format
in memory. THIS OPERATION IS POTENTIALLY DESTRUCTIVE! Exit by
typing 'q' if you don't want to convert your MBR partitions
to GPT format!
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Output of i: No partitions
Output of p:
Disk /dev/sda: 0 sectors, 0 bytes
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 2E1AE37A-8EDD-4014-A35B-F7AAD7556C29
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 18446744073709551582
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 0 sectors (0 bytes)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
Output of v:
Problem: Disk is too small to hold all the data!
(Disk size is 0 sectors, needs to be 0 sectors.)
The 'e' option on the experts' menu may fix this problem.
Problem: GPT claims the disk is larger than it is! (Claimed last usable
sector is 18446744073709551582, but backup header is at
18446744073709551615 and disk size is 0 sectors.
The 'e' option on the experts' menu will probably fix this problem
Partition(s) in the protective MBR are too big for the disk! Creating a
fresh protective or hybrid MBR is recommended.
Identified 3 problems!
I highly doubt I'll be able to recover anything from the disk (which contained a Windows partition and an Ubuntu partition) but any suggestions for what to do from here? Should I create a new GPT or just accept the disk is gone? Is it possible to get /dev/sda readable so I can try ddrescue or photorec?
