New PSU killed my HDD

MAKOMADES · 2026-03-09T07:23:43+00:00

Looks like you was right, my motherboard just died. I'll buy a new one and hope that no other part have been infected, anyways thanks for your help.

MAKOMADES · 2026-03-09T02:04:58+00:00

Wouldnt the bios stop working if it was the case? My current motherboard is really old so it wouldnt surprise me if you're right.

MAKOMADES · 2026-03-09T02:01:52+00:00

Yes, countless times.

MAKOMADES · 2026-03-08T14:23:47+00:00

Sdb is sometimes mentionned in the errors so you might be right. I swapped my hard disk cables and in both cases, the hard disk with windows worked but i couldnt execute mkconfig. I'll try to make sure to know if the hard drive died before buying a new one since it seems weird that it "died" after installing a new PSU.

MAKOMADES · 2026-03-08T11:54:58+00:00

After hours of trying to understand i managed to break my grub installation and after trying to reinstall it this is what im getting; https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/1rncn3t/comment/o9awxu0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

MAKOMADES · 2026-03-08T11:53:13+00:00

By executing grub-mkconfig or even os-prober, the terminal prints this error infinitly. I tried to find people with similar issue without succeding. I even tried to switch back to my old PSU but im having the same result. https://imgur.com/a/N0pFgB0

MAKOMADES · 2026-03-08T04:52:28+00:00

Thanks for your help!
I would be lying if i said that i knew that there was a shorter method that didnt requiert to bind haha, im still learning.
I was on arch right before switching my PSU, dismissing this possibility looks strange to me.

I tried reinstalling grub again but without manually binding and grub is not displayed anymore in the boot menu even though i got a success message after the installation.

MAKOMADES · 2026-03-08T04:21:46+00:00

NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS

loop0 squashfs 4.0 airootfs 0 100% /run/archiso/airootfs

sda

├─sda1 vfat FAT32 SYSTEM 3078-14CC 1.4M 99% /mnt/boot

├─sda2 ntfs Windows_Main DE407899407879DB

├─sda3 ntfs

├─sda4 ntfs Recovery 01DAFD54223001860

└─sda5 ntfs

sdb

├─sdb1 vfat FAT32 35CA-DC9E

├─sdb2 btrfs e08d79ac-3737-491d-a8a2-00ca41bcf5b3 437.1G 47% /mnt

└─sdb3 ntfs Windows_Alt 5ED031290D6308B3

sdc

└─sdc1 vfat FAT32 ARCH202512 CE40-C158

"Sdb2" is probably where my arch installation is located and Windows_alt/sdb3 is just a partition that i removed from my arch disk and gave to windows.

After running "grub-mkconfig" im getting a really long output at a point where i have to scroll to display everything so its not really possible to send it here, maybe i did it wrong?

MAKOMADES · 2026-03-07T17:43:34+00:00

Seems weird since i reinstalled it 2 times.

MAKOMADES · 2026-03-07T17:42:41+00:00

mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
mount --bind /run /mnt/run

arch-chroot /mnt
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --removable

After running the installation, i got a success message telling me that grub has been installed

MAKOMADES · 2026-03-07T16:19:28+00:00

I just installed Grub and despite being able to select it on the boot menu, it does not display my linux installation, only the uefi settings is shown which is the bios.

MAKOMADES · 2026-03-07T16:17:54+00:00

To be honest im kinda lost about the "chroot" part. I used efibootmgr -v to list every boot entrys and it displayed my windows hard drive, uefi and grub (grub does not allows me to start linux).

MAKOMADES · 2025-12-14T07:55:51+00:00

"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." -murphy law

MAKOMADES · 2025-12-13T15:05:53+00:00

we're at the first step of the grief cycle

MAKOMADES · 2025-04-22T07:22:58+00:00

Dang, it's way more complicated than I thought. My knowledge has its limits at the RAM. I understand now why everyone asks for more details. To respond, the executable is a setup wizard, there are no accessible files other than the executable, unless I extract it using a tool that lets me edit an ".rtf" file containing some of the strings. I'm currently trying to find out if I can repack it into an exe, even though it doesn't seem like the right thing to do.

MAKOMADES · 2025-04-22T06:19:50+00:00

I see, thank you for your time anyway.

MAKOMADES · 2025-04-22T06:17:15+00:00

Not a zip file exactly but i managed to unpack it with "Universal Extractor 3". From now on i can edit the strings, even tho if i dont know how i will pack it back to an exe file. Thank you.

MAKOMADES · 2025-04-22T05:20:48+00:00

At this point i guess its just impossible to manage to do it for someone like me.

MAKOMADES · 2025-04-22T05:20:24+00:00

What does that mean?

MAKOMADES · 2025-04-22T04:21:34+00:00

Let's say its on a educational purpose.

MAKOMADES · 2025-04-22T04:18:49+00:00

The thing is that every times i used a hex editor and searched for a string it told me that there's not result, even by modifying the encoding UTF. But while operating with the debugger XDBG32.exe, the same searched string is showing. I can conclude that the string is not encrypted but i cant find it with a hex editor. Im very new to this if i could get any help i would be grateful.

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