I had a motherboard crash in my notebook. I bought a new notebook computer, loaded Fedora 9 linux (as my previous notebook had), then bought a NexxTech 2.5" PATA hard drive enclosure to connect my old hd to my new computer. I cannot get linux to recognize the drive, however. I cannot figure out what I may have done wrong, oir what software I may be missing. Can anyone give me some guidance?Old System: Dell Inspiron 5150, with Seagate 2.5" internal hd (one month old)New system: HP Pavilion dv9910us, with NexxTech2 portable drive enclosure. Created by jfalter0. Computers & Internet - NexxTech

Using nexxtech 2.5

Every thing is proper in your software .and what you connected is also the proper way as to be done.but still i will suggest calling the technician at your place is much better.as this will save your time.and he will be having all the missing software cd which your pc demands.and if something goes wrong the the whole mother board will be corrupted.and will be counted as scrap.because all the minute connections in it are very sensitive.and connecting all your sofware will not be too costly will be just is service charge.and that is exceptable.because he is giving that service.

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Ronnie Houston

That hard drive may not be compatible with the new computer..the parameters may be wrong and wont allow it to use or trasnfer data from it onto the new computer.trying to interchange drives depends on compatibility issues and it sounds as though the one you are trying to use is simply not compatible to the new system

Anonymous

Linux device naming.
This topic provides information to help you understand naming patterns for devices on Linux.

Asfiya Ahamed

Dear Sir/madam,

Some laptops provide autility to lock a hard disk with a password. These passwords are notthe same as BIOS passwords. Moving a locked hard disk to anothermachine will not unlock it, since the hard disk password is stored inthe hard disk firmware and moves with the hard disk. Also, adding a new(unlocked) hard disk to a locked machine may cause the new hard disk tobecome locked. Also, note that hard disk lock passwords cannot beremoved by reformatting the disk, fdisk or any other software procedure(since the disk will not allow and reads or writes to the disk, itcannot be reformatted.) Usually, the BIOS password and hard disk lockpasswords are set the same by a user and we can recover the BIOSpassword directly from the laptop security chip (after it is removedfrom the system board.) However, it is possible that the BIOS passwordand hard disk lock passwords may be set different. In this case theBIOS password will not unlock the hard disk. You can test to determineif your hard disk is locked by attempting to access it in another laptop.

For more information click this link

http://www.pwcrack.com/harddisk.shtml

thanks
good luck

Anand Kumar

Please set the hard disk jumper to save mode and then connect it the Usb case , then check the status light blinking or constant on the hard disk case...

Ekse

The drive needs to be partitioned and if it already has been, windows doesn't support linux partitions so its not visible in windows until repartitioned

Ekse

Im talking about the usb drive of yours?

mohammed marika thambi

Reinstall ur linux os again...i think it may cause due to mistake caused during installation...linux should be always taken care to install in the syste,m...else it wont run pro...else install tat in different drive and see///

mohammed marika thambi

I've gotten it to work with FC1 using a similar process to that
outlined. The important thing is to work out what modules your usb
drivers need. With FC1 I added

usbcore

usb-storage

usb-hci

ehci-hcd

in that order to the front of the linuxrc script in the initrd image.
Order is important! Doesn't work for instance if you load usbcore up
last as the others depend on it.

However with just the usb modules it still failed as it wasn't getting
enough time to actually find the usb hard drive. So I added the sleep
function as well and it all worked fine. The fdisk wasn't necessary.

Mark Gil

Try checking this link for some solution that you can try about this USB detection probem http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=19896

Hope that helps........

Mark Gil

Yes that will prevent you from reading the external drive because , what will happen there your system wont recognize the external hard drive connected to it, try disabling the password then reboot then check if its working now...

Mark Gil

You're saying that the hard drive was recognize on another computer when connected via USB or its not also recognize??because if its not recognize with the other computer there's a problem with the usb cable, enclosure or the hard drive itself...........

Ginko

Check on bios that pata port is enabled.
See here :
PATA Troubleshooter - Computer Hardware ...

Ginko

If the had drive is an external one, plugged to USB , then this has got nothing to do with the BIOS settings.
If Fedora is installed on internal Hard Disk, it is supposed to recognise automatically an USB hard drive, and it generally supports all external usb har drives.
If it does not recognise the hard drive, then downloading TWEAKUI from here.

Run it and select hard drive, your external hard driveshould be on the list.

It is a different matter if you are trying to install Fedora on external hard drive and it does not start, there is a different solution for that, see:

Fedora Core Installation to an External USB Disk Drive

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