[PLUG] Is this a disk crash?

[tkubaska at charter.net]

Thanks for the input, guys.. I cannot mount hda ... there is no hda in /dev. Only hdc and hdd neither of which appear to be the hard drive. fdisk -l /dev/hda returns nothing.

I checked the voltages you specified and they are fine. The cables are good.

I booted to DOS from a CD. If I issue an fdisk it says "No fixed disks present." This doesn't look good.

I dont have another hard disk to try and boot from. I will get one.

You know even at my advanced age, I've had only two hard disk crashes. So it doesn't happen very often but it's painful when it does.
 -ted

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:13:49PM -0700, TedK wrote:
>> So.. Is this a disk crash? . is my next step to get a new disk and 
>> reload everything? . the Ubuntu Live Disk boots.

>When you boot from the CD, can you mount any of the partitions on the ide 
>drive?  What happens if you do an "fdisk -l /dev/hda" on the drive while booted 
>from Ubuntu?

No, there is no hda. fdisk -l /dev/hda returns nothing.

>A lot of things can be wrong - loose cables, bad power supply, missing boot 
>blocks.  Before you give up on the drive, check the voltage (with a voltmeter) on 
>the 4 pin drive power cable.  It should be 12V on the yellow wire, 5V on the red >wire, plus or minus 10% or so. 

Voltages are OK.
Keith

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