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SOLVED!: Second drive disappeared after Mint reinstall (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Solution: There never was a second drive. It must have been a partition that got wiped with the install, but there's only the NVME in there. Sorry, guys. I dig around in my innards very frequently and just thought I was mounting a second drive this entire time. Hooray for backups.

reinstalled Mint and my second drive is absolutely invisible to everything. I can't mount what I can't see. I'm thinking of unplugging it and plugging it back in just because I'm out of ideas.

What could have caused a drive to become invisible after a reinstall?

Edit: Checked bios. All security disabled. Using AHCI and UEFI (tried CSM). I don't really know what these things mean, I just know things were working properly before I reinstalled mint so I'm puzzled why it could be a BIOS issue.

Current lsblk:

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[–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Check cables. Verify whether or not it's even spinning up. Try a different sata port. Try a different power plug. Try the drive in another machine.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 months ago

    Yes, thank you for this, motivated me to pull the drive only to find out to my confusion that it wasn't there... mostly likely I was mounting a partition this entire time. Good news is that I have n 8-year-old 4TB and and 12-year-old 3TB I might as well consume.

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    • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    look for errors/warnings in dmesg

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Look in your BIOS for Intel Optane and deactivate it. It is not supported on Linux because it is buggy and can lead to data loss. That's why drives using that aren't showing.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    What? I thought Optane was a weird hybrid drive for mostly laptops I'm running a self-built desktop that's over 10 years old with an MSI Mobo. I was just in settings because something else led me to think it might be a BIOS issue, but didn't see any Optane.

    But why would go from one-year-ago-Mint to today-Mint trigger any bios issues?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Ah, then it wasn't that. Had that trouble with my wife's laptop. And the other day it just reset its BIOS settings by itself, booting back into Windows and activating the Optane stuff.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago

    Haha it's for the security of her data of course!

    Linux is my last stop for desktop computers. I'll probably still always have one, but I'm transitioning to using mobile devices more. But for media storage and setup, I still can't beat a desktop.

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    • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Is it out mounted? Can gparted or equivalent tools see it? If it's visible then for some reason it didn't mount automatically. If you can't see it, probably drivers.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    lsblk is as low level as it gets, no? Anyway, gparted sees nothing either, nor does Mint's Disks.

    Driver issue? For a hard drive? Ok... Uh, so what do I install exactly?

    Edit: Check the edit to my post.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I'm not seeing any image attachments in case you added that.

    Some brand of NVME SSDs are the only thing I've seen live driver issues on where the disk appeared invisible until drivers were installed, in one case the pre-installed Intel SSD drivers had to be disabled too because they were incorrectly taking priority.

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    • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    It doesn't show up running lsblk?

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