Saturday, August 22, 2015

windows 7 - Ubuntu not showing hard drive

I have a laptop which had a broken installation of Windows 7 installed on it.



I created a Ubuntu live USB and tried installing Ubuntu over that Windows 7. After a few minutes, I got an error message, so I needed to restart the computer. Now the laptop says that there is no bootable device - reasonable message given that there was an error during Linux installation. However:





  1. BIOS can see my hard drive,

  2. When I start Ubuntu in live mode, and try either sudo fdisk -l or gparted, it doesn't show any hard disk drives.



I am 90% sure that the hard drive is broken, but it is weird that BIOS can see it, and Ubuntu doesn't. How can I be 100% sure about that hard drive? Is there any additional way of detecting my hard drive from Ubuntu?

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