[ILUG] Hard Drive crash?

[Conor Wynne]

On 28 Feb 2006, at 01:04, Gary Pigott wrote:

> It's terminal, and at the very least it'll cost you the price of a  
> new HDD. If it's the controller that's borked you're looking at big  
> money unless you can get a systemboard from a 804 being broken for  
> spares on eBay. Sony don't sell spares, even if the laptop is out  
> of warranty. They'll tell you to send it to an "authorised service  
> centre" ;-)
> Gary


Not necessarily, maybe the boot sector is gone?
Boot of a rescue CD, you can use your SUSE CD1 for this purpose, boot  
it, try and see if your data is there or not. Sure see if the disk is  
detected!

HINT: dmesg, fdisk -l, e2label, etc..

>
> Michael Treacy wrote:
>> 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.

Regards,
Conor.