Is my HDD dead?
Hey,
So today my PC completely froze. After the reboot i stuck in an infinite loop trying to boot into emergency mode. I suspected an fstab issue, so booted with a live USB stick to fix it, but my HDD didn't show up in /dev/xxxx nor in blkid's output. (my external hard drive was detected without problems) Can i try anything else? Is my HDD dead? Thanks in advance. |
Could be the controller. Try connecting it to another PC.
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That's possible. It could be damaged, or a file corrupt. The motherboard or power supply could be the issue. Boot with whatever you can - install cd or whatever, and post the output of
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Look in the bios and see if bios recognises the internal hardrive.
Some bioses have a checker built in. I have used in a live session as root in terminal Code:
smartctl -a /dev/sdx | less If bios does not see it. It is toast. |
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In all likelihood, the HDD is probably dead, but eliminating the SATA controller is worthwhile. |
Thanks for the replies.
I just realized my optical drive isn't detected either. Code:
root@debian:/dev# ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/ Code:
root@debian:/dev# blkid Code:
root@debian:/dev# lshw |
This is pretty catastrophic.
Either you have no disk driver (a)in software or (b) in hardware You are booting from usb? have you checked dmesg and /var/log/messages for hardware errors? Do they sit up and say hello? |
Yes, i'm booting from USB.
The HDD which doesn't working now was the one i used to boot, so i can access only the live system's logs (which is running from USB). I'm pretty sure it's not a software issue, booted into a Debian installer and it didn't recognize my internal HDD (at the part where i have to set up the partitions). Since my optical drive isn't detected either i think it could be the SATA controller. Tried different SATA ports, the result is the same. |
Hmmmm. Something is being seen/detected
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*-disk Nor sure what to say about the cdrom drive other than check the bios like I said earlier. Your gear is newer than mine. |
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edit: It was an fstab issue after all :) For some reason the Debian live system (which i booted from USB) didn't recognize the SATA devices. Now i guess it was missing the appropriate drivers. I gave Puppy Linux a try and it detected my HDD, so i could fix fstab. Thanks for all the replies! |
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That is a wonderment. Maybe because internal drive is not seen so lshw gives it sda instead of sdb,sdc,sde,sdf. Quote:
This thread is beyond my level of expertise though, because bios sees drives but live session does not. I am stumped like you. Edit: Glad you got it sorted but a installed bad /etc/fstab entry should not have had any relevance in a live session. So I am getting on the bike and cruising for the rest of the morning. @nd edit: Must have been a old Debian kernel I guess. 3rd edit: Sure would be cool to see Code:
cat /etc/fstab Happy Trails, Rok |
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