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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
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