Proxmox drive no longer bootable after attempting to Clonezilla it

[billjacobson]

I discovered my 1TB SSD was failing the SMART test so I decided to use Clonezilla to clone it to a spare 1TB HDD. After spending the entire night last night running, clonezilla seemed like it was going in a loop and not stopping so I decided to ctrl+alt+del and reboot the computer. I unplugged the HDD and now the motherboard reads no boot drives available.

I used a liveUSB of fedora and I can see that the drive is still there.

My question is, does anyone know how to extract a VM with a live-USB so I can transplant it into a new drive? Or maybe get the SSD bootable again?

 

[Dunuin]

First I would check your BIOS/UEFI if adding the new disk screwed up the boot order or something like that.
In general cloning a disk with clonezilla shouldn't write anything to the disk it is cloning, so it should be untouched. But maybe your SSD just got more problems meanwhile?
You could run parted from a live linux to check if the MBR/GTP partition table is still fine (and it can fix it too if the table got damaged). And in case the grub/ESP got damaged you could boot a PVE Iso in rescue mode and try to write a new bootloader to the disk.
But before rescueing stuff from the SSD I would back it up first (for example writing a image file with dd if clonezilla is failing).