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 ;->

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