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Stage 1. I bought a 160 Gb hard drive for an IBM T42 laptop which had a 40 Gb drive. The T42 would not recognise the bigger hard drive so I overwrote my Linux distro with WinXP and updated to the latest T42 BIOS, still no joy.
Stage 2. The new hard drive is not formatted and being a 2.5" drive will not fit into the works of a desktop computer. I bought a caddy which plugs into the USB, fitted the cables to the drive and plugged in. I expected the drive to be detected automatically and appear on the desktop but no such luck. The power light on the caddy is on, the connector will only fit one way and a 'hunting' noise is coming from the drive. I tried gparted but it only saw my main hard drive and its partitions, Sda, Sda1 etc. I googled and tried tail -f /var/log/messages but there was no message about a hard drive. I tried fdisk -l but that only saw my main hard drive. This was running Mint Debian. I booted up with a disk with Ubuntu with the same results (who in there right mind would use unity?). At the same time as doing this with the new hard drive I also fitted the old 40 Gb drive with exactly the same results. Put the old drive back in the laptop and it works fine.
Am I missing something obvious here? Answers on a postcard to..... George -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq