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    Installing ubuntu – hard drive not detected

    I replaced the hard drive for the time being with an old 320gb HDD I had lying around. It was surprisingly easy, and all is well now, hopefully.
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    Installing ubuntu – hard drive not detected

    Thanks, Keith. I'll go for it. Wish me luck!
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    Installing ubuntu – hard drive not detected

    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...
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    Installing ubuntu – hard drive not detected

    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...
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    Installing ubuntu – hard drive not detected

    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.
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    Replace Vista on Old Computer with Linux Ubuntu

    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.
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    Replace Vista on Old Computer with Linux Ubuntu

    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...
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