[ILUG] Hard Drive crash?

[Michael Treacy]

Hi all,

I'm running SuSE 10.0 on a Sony Vaio (PCG FX-804).

I'd been working on it this evening and went to shut it down. An application 
that I had open seemed to hang and I couldn't get access to the shutdown 
menu on KDE.

After leaving it for a few minutes in the hope that it would end the 
process, I ended up pressing the On/Off switch for a few seconds causing the 
machine to shut off.

On restarting the laptop, I now get a message "Operating System not found". 
It doesn't seem to recognise the hard drive. I've tried going into the Bios, 
but the primary master says "None" and I cannot change it. When I reboot it 
stops at the SONY logo, waits a few seconds then gives the "Operating System 
not found" message.

Any suggestions as to how I might check the hard disk status?

Or is it terminal??

Mike.

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