Thank You for Your time and answer, arno: >But I can't even operate on the disk with fdisk: ># fdisk /dev/sdb >fdisk: unable to open /dev/sdb: No medium found > >Note that my data is only backup, so I don't care losing them when >fixing my hard drive.
Then it's really looks like adapter (USB-SATA?) failure or electronics on the HDD. Try to open it and connect to SATA/IDE controller of a PC directly - fdisk or log messages should indicate that there is "sdb" at least. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ebad16e.c820cc0a.5e23.0...@mx.google.com