[GLLUG] Today Meeting

Richard Houser rick at divinesymphony.net
Sat Nov 13 08:48:39 EST 2010


The drive is mostly shot.  We managed to read the smart statistics, although
the BIOS doesn't even detect that the drive is present.

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Karl Schuttler
<karl.schuttler at gmail.com>wrote:

> The drive's master boot record probably got wiped; you need to restore
> it using a boot disk.
>
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Jeremy Neil <jrmyzero at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >
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> >> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:43:03 -0500
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> >> 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
> >>
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> >> Benjamin Chavez
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