Alexey Matveichev wrote:

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That was annoying to have it plugged in all of the time and have the drive running uselessly. Here is the stupid part. I went into Yast partitioner and deleted the partitions on the drive thinking I would be able to reconfigure it somehow. Now it boots fine without the drive being plugged in but the drive is no longer found when I do plug it in.

I guess I have ruined it. Nothing on it to be seen, Any way to bring this new drive back to life?

Bob S

What do you mean by "no longer found when I do plug it in"? If you mean that it doesn't open Nautilus window when you plug disk in, then it's OK cause you're deleted all partitions from it. If there's no info about plugged drive in "dmegs" then it's not very good. Try to recreate partitions on pluggable drive, format them and I think everything will be OK.

Alexey

try to access the drive from konsole .. type fdisk /dev/sd and try for tab completion.. if u dont see ur drive there (even if it doesnt hav any partitions) then your drive is probably gone... mohit -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org