jamesbeckjr
December 10th, 2014, 02:13 AM
I received a laptop that didn't have a charger or OS. It would try booting from the Hard Drive but it would through "Disk read error. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart. The bios was locked with a password. I used a livecd and CMOSpwd to blank the bios password. When I tried to install ubuntu to the hard drive that came with the laptop it would fail. The install asks me to connect to the internet, I did, then the next screen checks for available space, powersupply, and internet connectivity. There was a green checkmark by the available space and power and internet. I told it to use the entire disk, but when I past that screen, it throws an error
input/output error during write on /dev/sdb
I tried livecd-ing and running the fdisk -l command, nothing. I am currently using a 20GB hard drive in the laptop, so the cd works
and so does everything else. I went into the manual partitioning option, I get ZERO errors when setting up the partitions. Manual setup
yields the same input/output error.
I know it sounds like a bad drive, but I have a bad drive that I tried using and I can't even get a green check mark by available space. So I
am beginning to think that the harddrive is password protected like the BIOS were. How can I know for sure?
input/output error during write on /dev/sdb
I tried livecd-ing and running the fdisk -l command, nothing. I am currently using a 20GB hard drive in the laptop, so the cd works
and so does everything else. I went into the manual partitioning option, I get ZERO errors when setting up the partitions. Manual setup
yields the same input/output error.
I know it sounds like a bad drive, but I have a bad drive that I tried using and I can't even get a green check mark by available space. So I
am beginning to think that the harddrive is password protected like the BIOS were. How can I know for sure?