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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: insomnia on 29 June 2003, 01:32

Title: I lost my harddisk...
Post by: insomnia on 29 June 2003, 01:32
I just lost my harddisk after deleting Gentoo...
I can't acces it with anything.
I have tried it with fdisk(both Linux and DOS) and in Knoppix.
But they all can't acces it...

Can those things really be gone?
    :(  

[ June 28, 2003: Message edited by: insomnia ]

Isn't their a single way to clear my disk?  :confused:    :confused:    :confused:

[ June 28, 2003: Message edited by: insomnia ]

Title: I lost my harddisk...
Post by: Stryker on 29 June 2003, 06:12
quote:
Originally posted by insomnia:
I just lost my harddisk after deleting Gentoo...


Did you check under the couch? That's where I always lose things.

Can the BIOS see it? if it can, you might want to try a low level format (unless you are starving to spare any data, but i'm sure you've made backups) You should be able to get a boot disk from your hard drive manufacturer to do this.
Title: I lost my harddisk...
Post by: askani on 16 July 2003, 12:49
Look and see if your hard disk jumper is set to the  appropriate (master/single/slave) position. If your BIOS can detect it you should be able to work with that. And check around for Partition Magic floppies,  it's great from messing around with partitions and such.
Title: I lost my harddisk...
Post by: sime on 18 July 2003, 07:24
Hi,

try this.

Make a bootable DOS disk.
Put a copy of fdisk on it.
Boot the PC from the disk.
At the A> prompt type ...
A>fdisk c: /mbr

Hope it woks.

Later

Sime
Title: I lost my harddisk...
Post by: insomnia on 26 July 2003, 04:37
Well euhm, I did find about 5 Euro under my couch,but no hard drive...  :rolleyes:  
Luckily my hard-ware vendor didn't placed the same hard drive as listed on the bill.
So they had to give me a new one.   (http://tongue.gif)    (http://smile.gif)  

thx,
insomnia
Title: I lost my harddisk...
Post by: sime on 26 July 2003, 06:09
Cool!

 :D