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I bought an SSD and wanted to replace my current HDD with that new SSD Here is what I did:

  1. Booted laptop from an ubuntu usb and Made an image of my current HDD using dd:

dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/external_drive/some/folder/hdd.img

  1. removed the current HDD from the laptop and put the new SSD in place
  2. Rebooted the laptop on my ubuntu usb
  3. USed dd to clone the image to the SSD

dd if=/dev/external_drive/some/folder/hdd.img of=/dev/sda

  1. Tried to reboot on my new ssd with no luck

I then tried to reboot on my USB flash drive and format my ssd and reinstall a fresh ubuntu on it but the drive is not visible in GPARTED or the BIOS . It is like it is not in computer.

  • SSD does not show up when using lsblk or GPARTED so impossible to format it or reinstall grub
  • BIOS does not detect SSD

Please help me recover my SSD

Thank you

Charles-Eugene Loubao
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I fixed this problem by running diskmgmt.msc in Windows. It prompted me to initialize the disk, with options being MBR or GPT, using the Logical Disk Manager. I was not able to detect it in BIOS, parted, cgdisk nor any GUI tools in Ubuntu prior.

avisitoritseems
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