no drives found?

[Bucky Ball]

@bucket ball yea im sure. Ive used this disk multiple times to install ubuntu on laptops and desktops

Goodo. Just checking.

[Kickinthedoor]

Goodo. Just checking.

good lookin out. any chance you could pull the pid out of the results i posted before? im just trying to wrap this up. im assuming that the drive is dead but i just wana make sure

i wana say its 5 based on this line:

"pid 5 --print-address 9 --session"

[Bashing-om]

Kickin:
No sweat yet. .....if you do not have a prompt in the 1st terminal (the one ya ran dd in) do ctl-c to interrupt the process and return ya a prompt....
that drive may be toast ...but I am not willing to give up yet....
try this one from mips suggestion:

WARNING, use this information with extreme caution!
You can repair the MBR from the Windows install media using the fixmbr command.

In linux you can erase the mbr using dd
# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdX bs=446 count=1

# dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdX bs=512 count=1 will not only erase the mbr but also the partition table You have been warned!

try that and see what haps.

BDQ

[Kickinthedoor]

no luck

dd: opening `/dev/sdX': Permission denied

im boned huh?

[Bucky Ball]

no luck

dd: opening `/dev/sdX': Permission denied

im boned huh?

Are you using 'sudo' before the command?

[Kickinthedoor]

good call, i didnt even notice that lol

[Kickinthedoor]

ran it again

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sdX bs=446 count=1

0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes (0 B) copied, 1.1454e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s

[Bashing-om]

Kickin ... in that last the X in sdX is a place holder ,,, shub be replaces with "a" ... to read sda...ok?..lemme see if there is a pid in any of yoyr results,(don't see how as dd ran out before ps command cud look for it).
BDQ

[Kickinthedoor]

ran it as "sda" and got "bus error" as a result then terminal closed and wont re open.

[Bashing-om]

OK kicken....reboot the system and try the wipe the MBR code sequece again and catch the exact error if the buss error results.
BDQ