On 3/19/2012 6:54 AM, William Hooper wrote:
I don't believe anyone has suggested it, but are your sure your hard
drive is still functioning? The file you attached doesn't detect any
hard disks, just two optical drives:
Well, this seems to be it. I found my xw8000 diagnostic cd and it says
the machine has two optical drives.
The rescue disk won't let me do a sfdisk to archive what's there and,
looking in /dev, I don't see any sda/sdb/hda/hdb entries.
Testdisk says there is nothing to test. GParted says there are no devs.
Since I have two harddrives, the odds that both of them went out at the
exact same time is unusual. Looking on the web, I am seeing indicates
that a lack of detection of hard drives could be a motherboard issue.
Opened the box up, cleaned and reseated cables ... still no hard drives.
I am inclined to think that I have a hardware failure regarding the
computer seeing any hard drives and therefore it is a dead computer
whose demise was not caused by an installation of F16.
Unless someone has a suggestion, I think I'll salvage for parts and let
it go at that. Its a 10+ year old 32bit machine that I got for @$300 and
I just can't see the value in throwing cash at it.
Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions ... I know more about
partitioning / formatting after this exercise.
Paul
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