[ubuntu-nz] missing hard drive

[David Beale]

I had this problem a while ago. Though my hard drive (which was only a
few months old)had died. I removed the data ribbon on the drive and
reinserted. Seems it was just a bad contact. Perhaps this may work for
you.
Cheers
Dave.






On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 08:12 +1200, Ru wrote:
> Hello,
> When you turn on your computer can you hear your Harddrive spin up at all ?
> You can try setting your bios to defaults
> Also if you can  try unplugging your Harddrive and then plugging it in again.
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/7/12, Papabear aka Reinhold <1bigteddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Howdy
> >
> > I run 10.10
> > It asked for a update on some security issues and while downloading the
> > data it hung - completely
> > Against my better judgement the only thing left was to crash shut down the
> > pc and reboot.
> > Now It will not reboot -
> > turns out the hard drive is well pretty much invisible.
> > It does not show up on the bios / or can be seen if a live cd is used or
> > with a usb pendrive used (gparted)
> > When booting up - I get as far as a flashing curser on the top left side
> > and that just blinks away for decades
> >
> > Thoughts???
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Reinhold
> >
> 
> 
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