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I'd had a mishap by not paying attention and trying to write a USB stick, and not checking device names. Turns out on my laptop if I boot, even from the internal drive, with a USB stick in a port, the USB stick gets assigned sda and the internal HDD as sdb. Guess how I found out the hard way.
You are absolutely right. And again, I'm not saying that it is the case, but normally (not always), the USB sticks are assigned to /dev/sd[bc]
the shit it that i had this virus on my computer for more than a week i tried to remove it with adaware and another program but it wouldnt go away and then one day my PC frooze but i could move the mouse around, and then it has been frozen since only showing a still Toshiba start of logo and then a black screen saying some like: no device and reboot computer or something , my computer is only 6 month old i can only go into the Toshiba System utility on it (BIOS is called right?) Do i need to format it with a format program before the instalation maybe?
But thanks alot i will check the sums of the file when i come home.
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Originally Posted by goumba
It depends on the computer.
I'd had a mishap by not paying attention and trying to write a USB stick, and not checking device names. Turns out on my laptop if I boot, even from the internal drive, with a USB stick in a port, the USB stick gets assigned sda and the internal HDD as sdb. Guess how I found out the hard way.
In newbie words what does this mean?
Last edited by syv-syv-syv; 07-28-2015 at 06:33 AM.
It means to never take for granted, as HMW says, what is supposed to happen "normally". There's always an exception. The more info you can provide, the better we can help.
the first thing its says is ERROR cannot find backligt controller
the MD5sum i matching............ its still saying "Buffer I/O error on device sda...." and when i scan the pendrive for error in the install menu of ubunti it says error found in 2 files does not make sense... im afraid my harddisk really dont work, Is it possible for a virus to kill a Harddisk?
Last edited by syv-syv-syv; 07-28-2015 at 11:45 AM.
the first thing its says is ERROR cannot find backligt controller
the MD5sum i matching............ its still saying "Buffer I/O error on device sda...." and when i scan the pendrive for error in the install menu of ubunti it says error found in 2 files does not make sense... im afraid my harddisk really dont work, Is it possible for a virus to kill a Harddisk?
I am not familiar with Ubuntu anymore. But I am sure a lot of users here are. But, you say you can boot from the USB, is a program called GParted available?
If so, you could try to erase and format your hard drive with that program. You can also check for errors with GParted.
On the US English keyboard, it is the key above the Enter key, hold down the shift key. For other languages you'll just have to look for it or let us know what language and someone should be able to help.
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