'No such cryptodisk found' error

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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I’m not really sure what I did to trigger this error, but recently I was installing a game on steam and noticing something strange. As I was installing said game, the entire desktop would freeze quite a bit, however I can still move my mouse, just couldn’t interact with anything. I restarted my pc, thinking this would fix the issue, however this made it a LOT worse. Now, instead of going to enter my encryption password or whatever, it gives me the error

“no such cryptodisk found. perhaps a needed disk or cryptodisk module is not loaded. error disk ‘cryptouuid/8ef18a47680a4adeb841e7efff72a273’ not found entering rescue mode” (also shown in the image below.

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if anyone has any fixes for this, please let me know! I’m still fairly new to linux, so I don’t really understand too much about certain errors and everything.
https://0x0.st/XChA.txt ← my hardware info, if anypony needs it

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Try booting the Endeavour Live ISO, and confirm you can unlock and access your encrypted drives from there.

You might also run SMART tests on your drives to confirm they’re ok:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/S.M.A.R.T.#Run_a_test

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I don’t know how to unlock and access them, i tried looking for my ssd but its completely gone? I cant find it on windows disk management, I cant find it in my file explorer from a live iso, and i cant see it in gparted or when i try to install endeavour from a live iso. The only place it is the BIOS, but that doesn’t seem to be entirely true because i tried removing my ssd and putting it in different slots and removing every other ssd BUT the one i need and it still wont show up. Is this a physical issue of some sort??

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still looking for help on this. does anyone know what to do ??

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If the drive isn’t detected by the BIOS, it is likely a hardware failure.

That would also explain the error you are receiving. If the drive is not being found, it can’t be unlocked.

I would try connecting the drive to another machine to see if the drive itself is lost.

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Isolating the drive was a good call, for testing purposes.

Based on what you’ve described here, I agree with @dalto’s suggestion to try the drive in another system, assuming you have that option available to you. Test using a Linux bootable ISO (like the Endeavour OS live ISO), not Windows.

At the very least, ensure you’re also testing with different cables and such.

With just that drive connected, you might share the output of this command to confirm it’s not visible to Linux:

lsblk -f
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Unfortunately, I don’t have another computer available to me right now, but it might just be a hardware failure afterall unfortunately. I’ll def try Bink’s suggestion and see if my drive shows up at all.

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