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On Sat, 2011-11-05 at 17:05 +0000, George Parker wrote: > This was "OT Laptop hard drive" but I now realise it isn't off topic at > all being about how Linux manages hard drives. To recap (with thanks to > all who have offered advice so far): > > 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 > Have you got more than one USB port? Some are usb 1 and some are usb2 can the Bios see a disk USB on boot? if not the it wont work anyway last of all use a knoppix live cd www.knoppix.com as this uses the superuser to mount external disks and gparted is ready to use Post it to me I could format it to 40 GIg (I have serval old lappys which can see more than 40Gig from the bios) or take it to the next meeting and slot it in someone's lappy and format it with a live cd ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) sip:kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxx www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq