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#1 2016-12-08 19:37:32

cotku
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Registered: 2016-12-08
Posts: 1

Not recognizing drive: no medium found

Hello,
I'm going to preface this by saying I'm an imbecile that knows nothing about hardware.

I am trying to install an OS on my laptop. While installing Windows my computer started making a clicking sound. After 10 minutes of this noise and no progress on the installation (it was at 6% progress) I forced a shutdown. (In hindsight I should have handled this differently but let's not focus on the past smile)

Previously the HDD worked fine. Now, neither Windows nor Linux can detect any such drive.

Commands such as

fsck -n /dev/sda

show

fsck.ext2: No medium found while trying to open /dev/sda

and

fdisk -l

show

/dev/sdb1  *     2048 60604415 60602368 28.9G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

(my USB drive)

However, running

ls -ltr /dev/sd*

does show an "sda"

brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8, 16 Dec  8 18:37 /dev/sdb
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8, 17 Dec  8 18:37 /dev/sdb1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk      8,  0 Dec  8 19:18 /dev/sda

and dmesg does show this drive being "attached" without error:

[    8.274220] psmouse serio1: synaptics: queried max coordinates: x [..5720], y [..4780]
[    8.350507] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic- Multi-Card       1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[    8.350951] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[    8.358375] sd 6:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
[    8.381560] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access              Patriot Memory   PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[    8.381998] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

[edit] "Patriot Memory" is the name of my USB drive. I just posted the lines immediately before and after the line which says "[sda] Attached SCSI removable disk"

I am assuming "sda" is the drive I want, but it seems to be unreadable. I have tried wiping it via

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1

but, again, no medium found:

dd: failed to open '/dev/sda': No medium found

Any ideas?

Thank you

Last edited by cotku (2016-12-08 19:45:14)

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#2 2016-12-08 19:45:53

Slithery
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From: Norfolk, UK
Registered: 2013-12-01
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Re: Not recognizing drive: no medium found

I'd say that everything's pointing to the conclusion that your drive is dead.

Last edited by Slithery (2016-12-08 19:47:17)


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#3 2016-12-10 14:16:44

seth
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Registered: 2012-09-03
Posts: 50,012

Re: Not recognizing drive: no medium found

sda is some cardreader and your HDD is very, very, likely gone.

If it's not reasonably replacable (old device, f**** expensive proprietary connector) I've revived several otherwise good netbooks by installing linux to, well, guess what, an SD card (while it may be necessary to boot from an usb stick, notably on acer's aspire one w/o the memory extension slot)

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