I'm a poor boy from down home, and I don't have money to spend buying computer equipment.
My hard drive went belly up recently. Fortunately, a friend of a friend gave me an old 400 gig drive he wasn't using, but it's a raw drive with no partitions on it at all. I need to format the drive, but I can't seem to figure out how to get 5.4 to see the drive.
The guy who gave it to me says it was working fine when he wiped it and removed it from his machine. I've checked the connections and they look solid.
How can I get 5.4 to see a raw hard drive?
Slacko 5.4 won't see raw hard drive
Does "Menu->System->GParted" see the PHYSICAL HDD?
And when you use GParted to choose to look at its contents, only see unallocated space?
There would be no partitions on the physical HDD, i.e. only unallocated space, and since most programs only see partitions [and only if formatted], those particular programs would see nothing.
And when you use GParted to choose to look at its contents, only see unallocated space?
There would be no partitions on the physical HDD, i.e. only unallocated space, and since most programs only see partitions [and only if formatted], those particular programs would see nothing.