SOLVED!: Second drive disappeared after Mint reinstall (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 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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[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

This is all I got:

I did backup my data to external drive, tho, so I'm not sweating bullets.

I should have a whole-ass platter drive in this thing.

[-] skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

OS doesn't see it so it's either dead, unplugged, or I have no idea.

You see it in the BIOS?

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