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On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 13:15 +0100, Mark Croft wrote: > thanks for you help. he got a external hard drive but was not being > used for backups , for movies to watch on tv downstairs. anyway live n > learn. hopefully acer will let him keep his old hard drive and i can > have a go at connecting too it too see if anything can be saved. > > mark > > > > > On 14 October 2013 12:58, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 14/10/2013 12:17, Mark Croft wrote: > looking the bios there a section in advanced - sata > port1 ; not present > ; sata port2; hl-dl-st dvdram .... > > looks like the hard not being detected could be duff > then > > > It could be the Win8 disk has got suspend to disk turned on or "fastboot" both will stop Linux from seeing the drive as it's labeled as "Dirty" Put it in a Win 7 or 8 machine and run scan disk / check disk > -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) A dedicated Linux user /usr/bin/microsoft Skype minions_shop 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