isnt there a way to test drive intergrity with a llive cd boot.. aka using that to run a test in terminal. ive at least done this before when i wasnt sure why the gnome panels werent working when i used ubuntu 10.04 on my old desktop. however i dont remember if you can mount the hard drive while the live is booted. anyways this is my advice <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:00 PM, <<a href="mailto:linux-user-request@egr.msu.edu">linux-user-request@egr.msu.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Send linux-user mailing list submissions to <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <a href="mailto:linux-user-request@egr.msu.edu">linux-user-request@egr.msu.edu</a> You can reach the person managing the list at <a href="mailto:linux-user-owner@egr.msu.edu">linux-user-owner@egr.msu.edu</a> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of linux-user digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Today Meeting (Benjamin Chavez) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:43:03 -0500 From: Benjamin Chavez <<a href="mailto:ebcha1974@hotmail.com">ebcha1974@hotmail.com</a>> To: <<a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a>> Subject: [GLLUG] Today Meeting Message-ID: <SNT118-W190E788AC27AD974301A43A9320@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi all I would appreciate if somebody would help me to bring back to life an old Dell laptop. I am planning in bring it to todays meeting. The problem I have is that I cant get it to boot. When I try to turn it on I get a screen that says "no bootable device" I had Ubuntu 10.04 LTS running on it yesterday. Please if somebody has some ideas I will appreciate them. If somebody have some tool to subtract the HD and a way to test it on another laptop using external cables will be good too. I'll see you later Benjamin Chavez -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <<a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/public/linux-user/attachments/20101111/835357b6/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/public/linux-user/attachments/20101111/835357b6/attachment-0001.html</a>> ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ linux-user mailing list <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> End of linux-user Digest, Vol 91, Issue 7 ***************************************** </blockquote></div> -- [jrmyzero]