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

[Raymond McLaughlin]

R. Kannan wrote:
> Just one more piece of information. This laptop has Windows Vista and I could
> boot that in Knoppix and see the NTFS partitions. Recently it has been upgraded
> to windows 7? Is there a newer version of NTFS that Knoppix is having a problem
> with?

I wouldn't put it past MS to come up with a wacky new partitioning
scheme, but you should still see the raw device in 'fdisk -l'

> The hard disk had also been replace on this machine with the upgrade.

Hmm.

>> 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?
>>

It's certainly time to switch something around, check connections, the
drive may be dead.  Does the drive operate in Windows? You say you can't
log in, but the system boots? Even if bit-locker is in use Linux should
still see the raw device, if not the partitions.

Based on Jim's comments, try a different live run distro, like Mepis or
*buntu, etc.


Ray