My partner is running leap 42.1
I was looking for a folder which was on one of my external hard drives & think I connected the incorrect external hard drive to her computer.
I am not to sure what is on the external that I connect to her computer but it could be the old external that contained my old opensuse 13.2 backups on.
The external wouldn’t open so I disconnected it & switched her pc off.
When she tried to start her pc it kept taking her to the terminal.
She then tried to do a new install twice but the install kept failing.
I asked her to let me see what she was doing.
The installation starts fine until we get to the suggested partition screen where is can only see the usb flash drive with leap distro on it, for some reason it can’t see her internal hard drive.
(Attached is a cropped photo of her screen)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/12102946@N00/25300086365/in/dateposted-public/
As a general rule reinstalling is not a solution in Linux. Mounting is simply not persistent. So how is it that you added the volume???
Did you try editing the installer suggestion it will not install on a full drive since it can not guess what you want you must tell it. Try doing an update rather than an install since it will then reuse the partitions that are currently in use.
Also can you still boot to the command line? If so then you can fix the problem rather then wipe it all out
gogalthorp is right re. reinstalling.
The pic is no evidence that the installer doesn’t see the internal hdd.
What happens if you simply try to boot the installed system ( AFAIK you got stuck in the installer, so the installed system should still be unchanged, apart from what you did to try and get the external hdd mounted. ). Hit Esc to see system messages, take a picture and post it here please.
I connected her external hard drive to her pc & her pc is operating now.
It looks like she has been running off her external hard drive.
Is it possible to recover her hard drive?
linux-mesv:/home/terri # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 596.2 GiB, 640135028736 bytes, 1250263728 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
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x78bfa3d7
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 * 63 915929972 915929910 436.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 915931136 1250263039 334331904 159.4G f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 915933184 920139775 4206592 2G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6 920141824 1004029951 83888128 40G 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 1004032000 1250263039 246231040 117.4G 83 Linux
This reports no internal harddrive at all. You cannot recover what isn’t there. Take a look in the BIOS whether the internal hdd is visible AND whether it’s active.
Thanks guys
The problem was a loose connection on the hard drive
I fiddled around with the DVD drive connection aswell.