After booting from from live disc, how did you try to detect the harddisk? Do you mean you already tried to do something like sudo fdisk /dev/sda (or /dev/hda) and got an error? If that's the case then you likely have a hardware problem. If fdisk is able to detect the drive, then you need to mount it. From fdisk you will be able to identify what partitions you have to mount. Create a temporary directory you will mount the partition to. Then edit /etc/fstab and add something like:
/dev/sda1 /full/path/to/your/temp/directory ext3 Then execute sudo mount /dev/sda1 and you should be able to read your hard disk. Hope this helps, Johann On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:17 PM, roy bayot <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. Good day. > > I am relatively new to Linux and I'm writing because I would like to ask > for help. I've been using Ubuntu as my only OS for about 8 months now and > everything seemed fine until now. I couldnt get into the desktop. > > When I open my PC, there's that black screen that says: > > grub loading please wait > error 17 > > I tried booting from a live disk. One from Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Another from > Knoppix. My goal was just to recover my files and copy it an external hard > disk. At both times, I could not see the hard disk with the Linux OS > installed in it. > > So I tried googling about grub error 17 and it turned me to > this<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=442945>page. Eventually, I > ended up on another > page > <http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/SuperGrubDiskPage.html#How_To_Use_Super_Grub_Disk>that > talked about using Super Grub Disk. I tried the Super Grub Disk but it still > didnt work. > > I also learned that this error is usually for those with multiple OSes. And > I am really starting to wonder why I got this error since I only have Ubuntu > installed in my machine. > > When I was also using the live cd, I tried using the terminal and typing > "sudo fdisk -l" and "sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst" based on a post in > the ubuntu forum <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=401531&page=2>. > When I entered the second command, the file was blank. > > Finally, I thought of just restoring Grub from the live cd based on another > ubuntu forum post <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351>. But > when I entered "find /boot/grub/stage1", it throws out "Error 15: File not > found". > > I really just want my files back. Thank you for your time. > > > Roy > > > * > * > > > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Web application and database consulting: www.sagadasolutions.com
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