Just thinking about it. I thought IDE HDD's were always recognised as /dev/hd<x>. But liveCD (in fact any boot program I use) is recognising this one as /dev/sda.
What's going on there? I'll give that go too Jake, ta. Too late to save setup and settings. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jake Anderson" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 9 June, 2011 10:58:35 Subject: Re: [SLUG] PC won't recognise boot disk best method i've found to "restore" a disk that's acting funny if you don't care what's on it dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=10M count=1 just write zeros to the first 10mb of the disk and start again ;-> -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
