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How to find internal hard drive when booting from USB?

rated 0 times [ 1] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 11805 / 2 Years ago, thu, february 17, 2022, 10:19:13

Trying to rescue a friend's computer. Put Ubuntu 12.10 on a Flash drive, changed the boot order, and fired it up; no problem. But now that I'm in, I can't seem to find the internal drive!

Any thoughts? I ran sudo fdisk -l in the Terminal and got this:

Disk /dev/sdb: 15.6 GB, 15610576896 bytes

119 heads, 55 sectors/track, 4658 cylinders, total 30489408 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18



   Device Boot     Start         End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sdb1   *       8064    30489407    15240672   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

99% sure that's the flash drive; it's 16GB. If that is the internal drive, I'm just not sure how to mount it. When I tried to mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/point it told me mount: only root can do that.

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answered 2 Years ago itteast · Accepted Answer

See the comments for more info on this question, but I think the only real problem was that the hard drive is damaged. Reboots and prayer were the only thing making it go...we'd reboot, see it mounted, copy some stuff, then it would presumable hit a bad sector, freeze/go gray, and disappear until we rebooted again.