[PLUG] Is this a disk crash?
tkubaska at charter.net
tkubaska at charter.net
Fri May 18 18:31:05 UTC 2007
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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