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Howdy I run 10.10 It asked for a update on some security issues and while downloading the data it hung - completely Against my better judgement the only thing left was to crash shut down the pc and reboot. Now It will not reboot - turns out the hard drive is well pretty much invisible. It does not show up on the bios / or can be seen if a live cd is used or with a usb pendrive used (gparted) When booting up - I get as far as a flashing curser on the top left side and that just blinks away for decades Thoughts??? Cheers Reinhold
Hello, When you turn on your computer can you hear your Harddrive spin up at all ? You can try setting your bios to defaults Also if you can try unplugging your Harddrive and then plugging it in again.On 5/7/12, Papabear aka Reinhold wrote: > Howdy > > I run 10.10 > It asked for a update on some security issues and while downloading the > data it hung - completely > Against my better judgement the only thing left was to crash shut down the > pc and reboot. > Now It will not reboot - > turns out the hard drive is well pretty much invisible. > It does not show up on the bios / or can be seen if a live cd is used or > with a usb pendrive used (gparted) > When booting up - I get as far as a flashing curser on the top left side > and that just blinks away for decades > > Thoughts??? > > Cheers > > Reinhold >
I had this problem a while ago. Though my hard drive (which was only a
few months old)had died. I removed the data ribbon on the drive and
reinserted. Seems it was just a bad contact. Perhaps this may work for
you.
Cheers
Dave.On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 08:12 +1200, Ru wrote:
> Hello,
> When you turn on your computer can you hear your Harddrive spin up at all ?
> You can try setting your bios to defaults
> Also if you can try unplugging your Harddrive and then plugging it in again.
>
>
>
> On 5/7/12, Papabear aka Reinhold wrote:
> > Howdy
> >
> > I run 10.10
> > It asked for a update on some security issues and while downloading the
> > data it hung - completely
> > Against my better judgement the only thing left was to crash shut down the
> > pc and reboot.
> > Now It will not reboot -
> > turns out the hard drive is well pretty much invisible.
> > It does not show up on the bios / or can be seen if a live cd is used or
> > with a usb pendrive used (gparted)
> > When booting up - I get as far as a flashing curser on the top left side
> > and that just blinks away for decades
> >
> > Thoughts???
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Reinhold
> >
>
>
> --
> *"Never Let anyone
> Tell You How To Live Your Life,
> Value Your Freedom"
>
> ~Rebecca McCarthy (1947-1998)~*
>
On Mon, 7 May 2012 07:59:13 +1200, Papabear aka Reinhold wrote:
> Howdy
>
> I run 10.10
> It asked for a update on some security issues and while downloading the
> data it hung - completely
> Against my better judgement the only thing left was to crash shut down the
> pc and reboot.
> Now It will not reboot -
> turns out the hard drive is well pretty much invisible.
> It does not show up on the bios / or can be seen if a live cd is used or
> with a usb pendrive used (gparted)
> When booting up - I get as far as a flashing curser on the top left side
> and that just blinks away for decades
>
> Thoughts???Sounds like a hardware problem, unfortunately. Might be a loose cable,
might be a dead drive or controller or something...
Cheers,
mwh