[Eug-lug] hardware fix

[Darrough, James]

Are you saying it won't boot a usb hard drive now? USB hard drive
enclosures are pretty cheap. Most newer machines have a BIOS option to
allow booting from USB so that might solve your problem until you can
get all the data off the old drive.

 

Regards, Jim Darrough

 

From: euglug-bounces at euglug.org [mailto:euglug-bounces at euglug.org] On
Behalf Of Peter Thurston
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:07 PM
To: euglug at euglug.org
Subject: [Eug-lug] hardware fix

 

My Toshiba A65 laptop hard drive failed and apparently took out the data
connections on  the motherboard.  A new hard drive is not recognized in
the BIOS.  Question: Does anyone know of a fix using Ubuntu, such as: 1)
booting from CD with just enough Linux OS to mount the USB, then load
and run Ubuntu off the flash drive, or, 2) get the machine to boot
directly from USB?  Any other suggestions?

Peter

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