I would start by looking in the BIOS of your machine - the drive should appear there. if not, it may be disabled or have some other issue.
-wes On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Richard C. Steffens <[email protected]>wrote: > When my wife walked into her home office this morning she was greeted > with an acrid smell and found that her computer was not running. We're > guessing power supply, but will let the folks at Pacific Solutions make > sure it's not something in addition to that. > > While I have convinced her to do backups, she does not do them as often > as I think she should. Knowing that her machine might have to sit with > Pacific Solutions for more than today I offered to pop her drive into my > USB drive box and get a few files for her. I opened up her machine and > found a SATA drive. My drive box is for IDE drives. Sigh. > > Next, I remembered that my "new" desktop also has a SATA drive. I > powered down, opened up, connected her drive to a spare SATA connector > on the mother board, plugged in the drive power and rebooted. > > Now for the real problem: How do I find that second drive? I did a bit > of Googling and found fdisk -l. But that only shows my drive: > > $ sudo fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x0007d83e > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 59628 478959616 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 59628 60802 9424897 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 59628 60802 9424896 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > > I didn't find /dev/sdb or anything similar. > > This is now an educational exercise since I put her drive back in her > machine and she has taken it to Pacific Solutions, but I'd still like to > know what I'm missing in case the issue arises again. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
