web interface goes on and of

[fvdw]

When you have booted your windows PC with a live knoppix cd then sda will probably be the hard disk of your windows computer.

I assume you have attached the harddsik to your windows PC using a sate->usb interface.
Typically then the harddisk will be sdb (unles you have more then 1 disk in your windows PC)

What out put do you get when you use

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fdisk -l

(the option -l is the letter l not the number 1)

[wietje]

fdisk does not see the drive
root@PartedMagic:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdd: 1977 MB, 1977614336 bytes
62 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 3862528 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 8199 3862527 1927164+ 6 FAT16
root@PartedMagic:~#
the only prog that sees the drive is gsmartcontrol
that program can run a test says
Complete error log:

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

the original disk is has bad sectors,I'm trying to copy as much as i can to another disk.

[fvdw]

what is the disk you are tying to use (manufacturer, type, size) ?

[wietje]

wd5000aakx
500gig western digital caviar blue

[fvdw]

WD has some hard disk software to check and low level format the drive.
maybe that brings it back to life

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/det ... /p/227,295

[wietje]

no software to get the drive back
got me a new one from the shop
now reading about inodes
i want to put a lot of pictures on it

[wietje]

leds stay blinking
started al over again.
mbr was written,starting with the partitions,the first sector is 2048
1 is not accepted?

Disk /dev/sde: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6d24e09b

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at
the next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8)
Syncing disks.
root@PartedMagic:~# fdisk /dev/sde

Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4, default 1): 1
First sector (2048-976773167, default 2048):

[fvdw]

that is because you are working with sectors instead of cylinders
give the command "u" (without the quotes) in fdisk to switch between sectors and cylinders

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Command (m for help): u
Changing display/entry units to cylinders

[wietje]

easy if you know
can i use the latast firmware(12.1) to write to sdb1 and sdb2?

[fvdw]

yes you can use that