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I cannot get further than GRUB except to rescue mode, when I attempt to boot the main Fedora OS it gets stuck on searching for a disk indefinitely. Gets stuck on Job dev-disk-by\<many symbols>.device/start running (1h / no limit) in the console.

I have a Windows partition on same drive, it also doesn't boot, it's rescue command prompt (from where you are instructed to open notepad to rescue files) doesn't "see" any disk but C: and X: (emerg boot).

I tried booting this machine with two live OS USBs: Fedora and SystemRescue. Neither of them list the SSD (or anything but the USB drive FS itself) in lsblk or the file manager.

Due to lack of storage mediums, I haven't done a backup in a while. How can I rescue the files? Many passwords are also stuck there, in Firefox manager I wasn't able to sync due to losing access to the 2FA email.

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[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I don't think I changed anything relevant in the bios, I'm always quite careful with changing things there. Maybe I changed boot order to test live USBs a couple times. Reboots are frequent due to system crashes.

Also also, is it possible you have two disks, and grub is on one and your data is on the other? Again, kinda weird question, but it's a kinda weird situation...

No, only one drive. I tried removing this drive, and it failed to get to GRUB. Plus, the rescue mode on Windows partition on the same drive that boots sees it's own 200 GB of files, they are definitely can't be anywhere but on 512 GB SSD.