[ubuntu-nz] ubuntu-nz Digest, Vol 49, Issue 3

[Papabear aka Reinhold]

Thanks for this
Done the detective thing and started with a pc box I knew worked and
replaced individual bits and pieces
Upshot is the HD is dead (it makes a awful ticking noise when trying to
boot)
That's not to surprising given all the shaking we had in Christchurch and
it makes me wonder how many other of my hard drives will eventually fail
too - most of them being 5 years or older . . . . . .
Luckily for me - I had nothing important on the failed HD!!

Who has tried and run Ubuntu from a USB HD - anything bigger then say
250MB??
Is there a slowness due to transfer rates compared to say a 'normal' HD????
I may want to think about a solid state HD if that can work better (no
moving parts eh ;)  )

Cheers

Reinhold



  1.  missing hard drive (Papabear aka Reinhold)
>   2. Re:  missing hard drive (Ru)
>   3. Re:  missing hard drive (Michael Hudson-Doyle)
>
> 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.
>
> Sounds like a hardware problem, unfortunately.  Might be a loose cable,
> might be a dead drive or controller or something...
>
> Cheers,
> mwh
>
>
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