, Maybe you missed it....

[James Crawford]

su -

fdisk -l or sudo fdisk -l Should return the partition table of "ALL" 
drives that are visible to your system that includes the drive you are 
booting from.

blank line implies you are not running fdisk with root permissions. 
James C. yeah, same response. blank line On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 2:31 
PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote: You have to be root to 
run fdisk -l # sudo fdisk -l On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Michael 
Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I mis spoke it is a new-used drive. I've had it a while. 'fdisk' returns
>> with an empty set and 'fdisk -l' returns an empty set too. 'fdisk
>> /dev/hda1' returns with  'no such file or directory'.
>>
>> How do I check my bios?
>> As for the possibility of there being a cabling issue, I've opened the
>> cabinet and reset the cables (unplugged and plugged back in) about 5 times
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Lisa Kachold<lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
>>
>>> fdisk -l
>>>
>>> Will list all the drives seen by the system.
>>>
>>> If your drive is not there, check your cabling.
>>> Check your bios to see if it's there.
>>> If not there might be a power cable issue?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Michael Havens<bmike1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> same response after I added the 'a'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Stephen<cryptworks at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Data drives are /dev/sda1 or /dev/hda1 for first drive of first
>>>>> partition increment a to b for 2nd drive and 1 to 2 for second partition.
>>>>> On Nov 18, 2011 4:29 PM, "Michael Havens"<bmike1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>   I just installed a new hard drive and it isn't showing up What do
>>>>>> you think is wrong? I tried mount /dev/hd1 /mnt/hd1 but the reply was
>>>>>> 'mount point .... does not exist'
>>>>>>
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