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with the bios, they usually require some kind of specific driver
or method to chat with the bios, usually relying on the vendor to
create a linux binary, or at the bios level, to update the
firmware. I wish I could automagically update the bios, it's
usually a pain.
You might consider booting the drive on a usb to sata adapter on a
working system, or whatever format the disk is, to see if another
os sees it even inserted. Usually you'll get some sort of dmesg
spew about this and that as it inserts and probes the hardware.
If linux/grub doesn't see it at all, it's usually damaged. Worst
case you'll usually get /dev/sd[a|b|c] inserted message, which is
linux understanding how to probe the hardware, and subsequent
enumeration of your partitions if possible as /dev/sdX[1|2|3] as
the partition. A live cd should see some form of /dev/sdX drive
aside from the usb.
If you see /dev/sdX without the number, and some grumbling about
missing partitions, likely it wiped your data enough wipe from
sector 0 at least as you let it run.
I'm thinking it isn't seeing your partition/mbr, etc, but probably
sees /dev/sdX without at least /dev/sdX1 meaning you wiped your
data.
Does the bios see it on the sata bus? If so, the disk should be
OK as long as you can rewrite the partition or access it without
ata failures.
Only other thing is maybe a bug in the kernel not seeing a legacy
adapter or something buggin' it out. Maybe a different distro
with an older kernel? I have booted a newer kernel that didn't
see old devices before for whatever malfeasance there was (usually
stupid video card/driver issues tho, never a disk).
I did have crappy disk firmware update utility from linux nuke my
Adata ssd with an upgrade binary to fix the disk from linux that
was here today, gone tomorrow once invoked on my drive. Their
crack(head) tech support promply ignored me too, but again,
requires some sort of binary interaction that is far from default
on a disk utility to automagically update bios or firmware to a
disk or mobo. Dmesg just would give ugly kernel messages of sata
timeouts beyond that - to the garbage pile and blacklist of
vendors to buy disks from.
I just lost another ssd, apparently an equally crappy Crucial m100
disk after 2 months that gave out showing me no partitions and ata
timeouts, so maybe bad luck of it just giving out on a cleansing?
Every disk seems to die in different ways, especially with the
advent of ssd's.
-mb
On 12/15/2014 05:59 PM, Michael Torres wrote:
does seem like something messed with BIOS.... do you have a
clean working drive that you can install and boot to. One that
is NOT a USB? Try that, at least you'll be able to narrow down
the issue in one direction or the other.
Mike
Stephen M <smelheim85@gmail.com>
wrote:
for EFI. But I am going to see about downloading this new
version of the BIOS and see if it will run or not.
Stephen M <smelheim85@gmail.com>
wrote:
try to change the boot order.
5:30 PM, Michael Torres <matorres124@gmail.com>
wrote:
arrogant or sarcastic, but have you
tried to reset BIOS? or Re-order the
boot order?
Mike
15, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Stephen M <smelheim85@gmail.com>
wrote:
is there a chance that dban
messed with my BIOS firmware?
I am having trouble loading
even a live CD. BIOS doesn't
always work but computer will
boot into EFI. I know it
sounds strange but thats the
only thing I can think of. If
it was just the drives than I
would just assume the boot
sector might have been messed
up. But when I try to boot
into a live CD it will only do
it through EFI. The same
thing happens when I try a
live USB. I know it works on
legacy BIOS because my laptop
sees it right away.
Just wanted to know whats the
best course of action. The BIOS
is HP and from their website it
should be the most current
version.
Dec 15, 2014 at 2:34 PM,
Stephen M <smelheim85@gmail.com>
wrote:
this point I should be
able to get a program to
rewrite the boot sector so
I can setup an OS on the
drives. So that is what I
am looking for something
that will help on that
respect. I am that the
creators of dban would not
make a program that would
wipe a disk completely so
that you can never use it
again.
Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at
2:32 PM, Michael
Butash <michael@butash.net>
wrote:
like it wiped
at least the
boot sector,
and probably a
good chunk of
your os disk
as an
unintended
victim. Hate
to say it, but
never used
dban, so not
sure if it's a
glitch or just
meant to
blatantly wipe
*everything*
in a system.
Sounds like
the later...
If so, you're
likely a bit
(or lot)
hozed. If you
know the
geometry of
the disk
partitions,
you can maybe
recreate the
partitions and
access some of
your data, but
seeing as
you're now
missing
contiguous
chunks of
disks, my
guess is
unless you're
using
forensics
tools, you're
not going to
get at it.
-mb
On 12/15/2014
02:26 PM,
Stephen M
wrote:
everyone,
I need help
again with my
computer. I
am not sure
what happened,
but ever since
I used dban to
erase one HDD
connected
through a usb
adapter my
desktop
doesn't want
to load an
OS. It was
working fine
until dban
started to
erase the
entire disk.
I stopped it
before it
could get too
far. Now when
I try to boot
into either of
my disks it
doesn't see
them.
I've already
tried to use a
live CD to
correct the
problem and I
have an OS on
one of my
drive. But
the computer
won't load
into and says
it can't find
a bootable
disk. I am
sure that one
of the disk as
an OS on it.
When I use a
live USB it
won't load.
But I use it
on my laptop
and it works
just fine.
Any
suggestions?
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