[mdlug] knoppix does not see the hard disk on a laptop

[R. Kannan]

I could not see any hard drive related messages from 'dmesg'. Also, 'fdsik -l' does not return anything. It is as if the hard drive is not there?


-----Original Message-----
>From: Raymond McLaughlin <driveray at ameritech.net>
>Sent: Dec 18, 2009 9:14 PM
>To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>Cc: "R. Kannan" <rkannan at peoplepc.com>
>Subject: Re: [mdlug] knoppix does not see the hard disk on a laptop
>
>Jeff Hanson wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 6:40 PM, R. Kannan <rkannan at peoplepc.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am trying to retrieve some files from a windows Lenovo laptop which could not be logged into. After booting into knoppix I see that the NTFS file systems are not mounted. I cannot see any devices named /dev/sda* or /dev/hda*.  I now the partitions exists as windows boot from C: drive.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>> 
>> In a terminal:  dmesg | less
>> and look for any messages relating to hard drive interfaces, etc.
>
>Also, as root:
>    # fdisk -l
>should show you all the hard drives that the system can see.


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