Second HDD Hard drive has disappeared

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Hello fellow Penguins! I have a strange problem.

I recently reinstalled Manjaro on my Laptop. The Laptop has both an SSD (250GB) and an HDD (1TB) drive. I usually use the HDD as my /home partition.

once i updated the system i wanted to change my /home partition to the second hard dirve… only to see that it is completely missing

The drive is still inside the laptop. I also have not opened it up or done anything else to it. yet the drive is completely undetected!

blkid only sees the SSD:

The output of sudo blkid is:

/dev/nvme0n1p1: LABEL_FATBOOT="NO_LABEL" LABEL="NO_LABEL" UUID="FAD2-6E88" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="a7e94599-c508-5946-a33a-800de755a91c" 
/dev/nvme0n1p2: UUID="e64e3ed9-a5bd-4fbb-8c49-535e24f3f752" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="root" PARTUUID="e056c596-3416-d64f-aacc-153105019425"

The output to fsck -lu is:

/dev/nvme0n1: 238,47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors Disk model: SAMSUNG MZVLB256HAHQ-000H1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 88BE5CB9-C6BB-F447-95BA-7736890E0528
/dev/nvme0n1p1 4096 618495 614400 300M EFI System /dev/nvme0n1p2 618496 500103449 499484954 238,2G Linux filesystem

GParted also does not show the drive in its drop-down menu.

What happened? How do i get my drive back? The laptop is less than 2 years old. i don’t want to buy a new one!

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  2. No need to do anything right now as I’m a moderator here on this site and have fixed it for you already. However, in the future I might not see your post so review my RAW edits by pushing the orange pencil in the upper right corner of the post I just fixed. :wink:

  3. You have a hardware problem.

    • Find the service manual of your laptop,
    • remove the HDD from its cable,
    • clean the contacts of the HDD and the cable.
    • reinsert HDD

:crossed_fingers:

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The only thing I can think of is either the HDD connector got loose, or the HDD failed.

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