Try this Mike.  Since you seem to be running on a live CD, you probably will not have the enter a password for the sudo.  But enter the following commands
cd ~/Desktop
sudo lshw -short -C storage > lshw.txt
sudo lshw -short -C disk >> lshw.txt
sudo lshw -short -C volume >> lshw.txt
and tell us what results you get (they will be in the file lshw.txt which will be on your desktop).  If you need to move them to another machine for emailing, plug in a flash drive and copy the file to it.

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$

It gives me nothing!


On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 1:11 AM, James Crawford <jrefl5@gmail.com> wrote:
su -

fdisk -l or sudo fdisk -l Should return the partition table of "ALL" drives that are visible to your system that includes the drive you are booting from.


blank line implies you are not running fdisk with root permissions. James C. yeah, same response. blank line On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com>wrote: You have to be root to run fdisk -l # sudo fdisk -l On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

I mis spoke it is a new-used drive. I've had it a while. 'fdisk' returns
with an empty set and 'fdisk -l' returns an empty set too. 'fdisk
/dev/hda1' returns with  'no such file or directory'.

How do I check my bios?
As for the possibility of there being a cabling issue, I've opened the
cabinet and reset the cables (unplugged and plugged back in) about 5 times


On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Lisa Kachold<lisakachold@obnosis.com>wrote:

fdisk -l

Will list all the drives seen by the system.

If your drive is not there, check your cabling.
Check your bios to see if it's there.
If not there might be a power cable issue?

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Michael Havens<bmike1@gmail.com>wrote:

same response after I added the 'a'


On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Stephen<cryptworks@gmail.com>  wrote:

Data drives are /dev/sda1 or /dev/hda1 for first drive of first
partition increment a to b for 2nd drive and 1 to 2 for second partition.
On Nov 18, 2011 4:29 PM, "Michael Havens"<bmike1@gmail.com>  wrote:

 I just installed a new hard drive and it isn't showing up What do
you think is wrong? I tried mount /dev/hd1 /mnt/hd1 but the reply was
'mount point .... does not exist'

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