OK, so here’s the deal. I have a laptop that has crashed. Since I do not have the recovery disks anymore I was just going to install Linux onto it. Thing is ,I go to select the partitions and there isn’t one there. I went to Gparted on the Linux live disk,but says no hardware found. Is there a way to pull up a CMD prompt to make a new partition from scratch? I believe my hard drive has failed,but oddly still pulls up the live CD. I don’t see how the computer can still go onto the live disk if the hard drive doesn’t work. So I am still confused if it’s the hard drive its self.Can there be another issue?
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Forgot to mention that the laptop is a Windows XP
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I’m thinking that your hard drive has failed, too.
You don’t need to have a hard drive in order to boot the live CD. (Been there, done that.)
From the live CD (Ubuntu 10.04, at least) you can run “Start” | “System” | “Disk Utility” and see if it finds anything.
From any distribution, you should be able to run a terminal window (“Applications” | “Accessories” | “Terminal” in Ubuntu), and enter “sudo lshw” (lshw is short for “list hardware”). See what it reports.
But: if gparted isn’t finding anything, there’s a good chance your hard drive is dead.
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