[opensuse] Strange Hard Drive Behavior
Didn't want to hijack the hard drive controller thread so............. I have a computer that says there is no hard drive when turned on. Then goes ahead and boots just fine. A few weeks ago my Windows computer popped up a warning that the hard drive was in imminent danger of dying do to mechanical issues. I immediately moved all the important information off the hard drive. Bought a new drive and cloned the old one. Now the computer says no bootable drive then boots as normal. -- A cat is a puzzle with no solution. Cats are tiny little women in fur coats. When you get all full of yourself try giving orders to a cat. _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On August 10, 2015 4:06:56 PM PDT, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh@swbell.net> wrote:
Didn't want to hijack the hard drive controller thread so.............
I have a computer that says there is no hard drive when turned on. Then
goes ahead and boots just fine.
A few weeks ago my Windows computer popped up a warning that the hard drive was in imminent danger of dying do to mechanical issues. I immediately moved all the important information off the hard drive. Bought a new drive and cloned the old one. Now the computer says no bootable drive then boots as normal.
Have you checked for bios settings that delay drive power up, so as not to over tax the power supply? And at the risk of sounding like a broken record: BAD CAPS either on the mobo or in the power supply.....? -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Billie Walsh composed on 2015-08-10 18:06 (UTC-0500):
Didn't want to hijack the hard drive controller thread so.............
I have a computer that says there is no hard drive when turned on. Then goes ahead and boots just fine.
When were its motherboard and power supply manufactured?
A few weeks ago my Windows computer popped up a warning that the hard drive was in imminent danger of dying do to mechanical issues. I immediately moved all the important information off the hard drive. Bought a new drive and cloned the old one. Now the computer says no bootable drive then boots as normal.
An ancient CMOS battery could mean corruption has begun setting in whilst powered down. If installed HDs are all set to NONE in BIOS, it might nevertheless fall back to booting from automatically found HD. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-08-11 01:06, Billie Walsh wrote:
Didn't want to hijack the hard drive controller thread so.............
I have a computer that says there is no hard drive when turned on. Then goes ahead and boots just fine.
A few weeks ago my Windows computer popped up a warning that the hard drive was in imminent danger of dying do to mechanical issues.
That's SMART. I mean, look up the acronym SMART in the Wikipedia, related to hard disks. In Linux, the same warning is given by the smartd daemon.
I immediately moved all the important information off the hard drive. Bought a new drive and cloned the old one. Now the computer says no bootable drive then boots as normal.
Possibly your BIOS has defined to boot from a device that does not exist, gives the message, then continues to try the next device in the list. Or... It fails initially, tries again later, it works. Or... as Felix says, the cmos data is blank, then goes to defaults. Several scenarios :-) - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlXJQ9gACgkQja8UbcUWM1x05QD+IuAteQpf/3Ksruq3Y0lhHYxk 56z5OeRgBCuZg3chBXEA/0LR+EqSHALKtvlLZeT2eUowKM/pvzwl8G4yltdvK4Ro =SxPh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh@swbell.net> wrote:
Now the computer says no bootable drive then boots as normal.
Sounds like firmware setup is configured to look for a different drive first which isn't there or isn't bootable, and then fallsback to the next drive in the list which works. -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Le 11/08/2015 01:06, Billie Walsh a écrit :
Bought a new drive and cloned the old one. Now the computer says no bootable drive then boots as normal.
"there is no keyboard, please hit the F1 key" symptom? bios are sometime curious :-) jdd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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