lspci showed a SATA bus controller among a load of other entries.
I got into BIOS > Diagnostics > Primary Hard Disk Self Test which returned "Hard Disk Not Exist", which suggests to me that the hard drive is in fact kaput :(. If I take out the existing 250GB HDD, are there any restraints as to...
Hi Condobloke, yes, the laptop has a 232GB hard drive. Initially everything worked fine and I had Vista and ubuntu in parallel on the drive. Later I reinstalled to remove Vista. Something has gone wrong in the meantime and the situation is as described. Of course the hard drive could have died...
I’m trying to install ubuntu 18.04.5 on an old HP Pavilion Vista laptop, using a bootable DVD disk. I can run a live session from this disk, but the hard drive is not detected, so installation is not possible. gparted only finds the optical drive.
Thanks for your reply. gparted only found the optical drive /dev/sr0. The (internal) hard drive was not detected. I'll start a new thread as you think this may help.
I’m joining this thread because I also had an old HP laptop running Vista which I hope to convert to Linux. I burnt ubuntu-18.04.5-desktop-amd64.iso to a DVD disc and this worked fine to boot the system. I had ubuntu and Vista parallel and later removed Vista. Now I seem to have problems. Using...