On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 07:19:27PM -0500, Lawrence Clemens wrote: > Background: I thoughtlessly smoked my wife's friend's HD by reversing the > power plug to the drive. Although I have reached geezerhood status, I still > do stupid things. I also volunteer at rehabbing computer donations for a > non-profit, and I keep an eye on linux as a possible low cost operating > system for our low-income, computer unsavvy clients. But as you know > everything we get is Windows based. <snip much info> I haven't seen any recent response to you, so let me just make a quick comment. My guess is that the drive is fried. My guess is that the drive isn't even recognized when you boot-up. To be sure boot again either with Knoppix, or whatever distro you ended up installing. Then, right after booting run "dmesg" and send the results to the list. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |Dmitry's free,Jon's next? http://faircopyright.org _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list