Barry Drake wrote: > Hitachi boot disk with a diagnostic/repair tool told be that the boot > sector had an irrecoverable mechanical error.
What, exactly, did it say? Did a google of the phrase turn anything up? > This entire saga doesn't make any sense at all to me. Any thoughts? Can you boot the machine with the disk plugged in? If so, is anything pertinent logged (/var/log/syslog, /var/log/messages, dmesg)? Have you tried switching between AHCI and non-AHCI mode? Many drives have broken AHCI implementations where specifically not using it makes things better. Sometimes vice-versa is true. If Windows is fine with it, I'd not find it easy to blame anything below the firmware - cables, controllers etc. -- Avi -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
