I'd like to propose the same question again, even though a couple of months have passed.. Could a special area of this forum be designated for historical discussions (/ personal stories / (general)...
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I'd like to propose the same question again, even though a couple of months have passed.. Could a special area of this forum be designated for historical discussions (/ personal stories / (general)...
Thank you all very much for your help. I will go and see a friend who is good with stuff like this (although he does use Windows :P).. and who will probably be able to connect it directly to his pc...
This sounds a lot like my issue in my thread. I get almost the same error messages.
Luckily my drive did not have any data on it, but unfortunately I can't format or create a new partition table...
Hi Sandyd,
Thanks for your reply.
I hadn't tried that, but now I have. In Gparted I created a new partition table (MS-DOS (=default)), and made a new partition (Primary partition, FAT32, the...
I think (?) you were looking at my -properly working- 60GB internal hdd. I put in that screenshot to show it's SATA, and it works. Sorry, I should have been clearer about that.
The third and fourth...
There luckily was never any data on the disk as I couldn't get it to work in my laptop, and I already had an external disk :)
I have formatted and reformatted but it just won't mount, and the...
Thank you d4m1r, I might have to do that some time.
But the thing is, I know I ruined something on the disk. It used to work in its casing, and now it doesn't. So if I upgrade my BIOS now and put...
noor@laptop:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdc
[sudo] password for noor:
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-35-generic-pae] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen,...
OK, sorry, a little more info then :)
1- I bought a 2.5" (Seagate) internal hdd for my laptop
2- It didn't work (because of my outdated BIOS, but I didn't know that then)
3- I returned it to the...
Hi,
I have a 2.5" 500GB harddisk in a casing that won't mount (or at least cannot be accessed and is not shown in "Disk Usage Analyzer") (and it can't be accessed in Win XP either).
I twiddled...
I agree with DuckHook: if there's no chance of creating a special subforum for these historical discussions, a good alternative would be to move the posts/thread to another, new, thread in the...
Maybe a "Computer History" subforum within the "Specialized Discussions" section would be a good idea?
when you've wasted a lot of time using a 4500 page dictionary because you're too lazy to look into how to install Wine
edit: well, posting that did it for me. Software Centre - install Wine-...
Thanks DuckHook, I understand what you're saying. I guess without an overall reasoning skill we're back to acquiring an overall experience - one step at a time.
Patience and enthusiasm!
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Wow, ibjsb4, how did you manage to reply to siddi 5.5 hours before (s)he posted the issue!?
=D>
Siddi, you'd better open your own thread and explain the problems you're encountering there. Posting your problem in another thread makes replying to the different issues very confusing.
Good luck
Hi Starstreams and others
Interesting questions here in this thread. I've been trying Linux (xUbuntu 12.04 & Debian 7) since last August, and I run into the same issues: I learn a lot from this...
Hi, I've been reading this thread with interest, and have learnt a lot :) But please note I'm still quite a newbie in regard to Linux. I'm just trying to help with the feeble ideas that come to mind....
Hi NikTh,
Thanks for your continued support :)
I have already looked into updating BIOS - there are updates available, and my BIOS (PE14A04) is upgradeable. But to be honest, I dare not try it....
I just wanted to share this. I'm sure it's nothing new to most of you, but I think it sounds so poetical.
noor@laptop:~$ reboot
reboot: Need to be root
Does anyone know of any other funny,...
I returned the first new hdd and got a Western Digital SATA300 500Gb. Didn't solve much. DMA did not need to be disabled, Debian&Gnome sometimes worked, but it crashed (or wouldn't start up)...
It seems the primary problem is that my chipset ([SiS] 671MX) cannot "communicate" properly with a SATA300 (=3Gb/s) hdd.
On this site Western Digital gives a description of the problem and a...
UPDATE
I just got my notebook back, with Debian7+Gnome3 installed.
It works! Hurrah! :guitar:
The (Debian) expert found out that the problem was related to DMA, Direct Memory Access (or at...
Dankjewel voor je reactie warjowuch -- thanks for your reply warjowuch :)
...I haven't mentioned it before, but I have all my flash USB's formatted as FAT32.
Just to answer my own question and maybe help others by doing that:
I copied the information that's on the Fan itself (make and model number), and searched for it on ebay. It turned out it was...