Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.
Hello everyone, I have got some good news.
The hdd is now back from the dead,alive and working well.
I went to my friend who had that casing. He attached my hdd to
his windows 7 machine and as usual, it didn't show up.
So I had a debian laptop with me , and I connected the hdd to that
laptop and viola, dmseg showed this
> [ 101.317618] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> [ 101.317784] scsi6 : usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0
> [ 101.317865] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
> [ 101.317867] USB Mass Storage support registered.
> [ 102.316522] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Mass Storage Device PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
> [ 102.318131] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> [ 102.318814] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 1465149166 512-byte logical blocks: (750 GB/698 GiB)
> [ 102.319444] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> [ 102.319459] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> [ 102.320084] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
> [ 102.320091] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [ 102.322308] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
> [ 102.322316] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
> [ 102.404425] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 < sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 sdb8 sdb9 sdb10 sdb11 sdb12 sdb13 sdb14 sdb15 sdb16 sdb17 sdb18 sdb19 sdb20 sdb21 sdb22 sdb23 sdb24 sdb25 sdb26 sdb27 sdb28 sdb29 sdb30 sdb31 sdb32 sdb33 sdb34 sdb35 sdb36 sdb37 sdb38 sdb39 sdb40 sdb41 sdb42 sdb43 sdb44 sdb45 sdb46 sdb47 sdb48 sdb49 sdb50 sdb51 sdb52 sdb53 sdb54 sdb55 sdb56 sdb57 sdb58 sdb59 sdb60 sdb61 sdb62 sdb63 sdb64 sdb65 sdb66 sdb67 sdb68 sdb69 sdb70 sdb71 sdb72 sdb73 sdb74 sdb75 sdb76 sdb77 sdb78 sdb79 sdb80 sdb81 sdb82 sdb83 sdb84 sdb85 sdb86 sdb87 sdb88 sdb89 sdb90 sdb91 sdb92 sdb93 sdb94 sdb95 sdb96 sdb97 sdb98 sdb99 sdb100 sdb101 sdb102 sdb103 sdb104 sdb105 sdb106 sdb107 sdb108 sdb109 sdb110 sdb111 sdb112 sdb113 sdb114 sdb115 sdb116 sdb117 sdb118 sdb119 sdb120 sdb121 sdb122 sdb123 sdb124 sdb125 sdb126 sdb127 sdb128 sdb129 sdb130 sdb131 sdb132 sdb133 sdb134 sdb135 sdb136 sdb137 sdb138 sdb139 sdb140 sdb141 sdb142 sdb143 sdb144 sdb145 sdb146 sdb147 sdb148 sdb149 sdb150 sdb151 sdb152 sdb153 sdb154 sdb155 sdb156 sdb157 sdb158 sdb159 sdb160 sdb16
So I fired up gparted, and it showed my 698 GB hdd, without a GPT.
So I created a GPT,and have now installed Windows 7, on a 80 GB partition.
I haven't run any tests on the hdd as such, it seem to work nice.
Please suggests some tests I could do using standard linux tools, if possible
It will help us benchmark the hdd!
Windows was very bad again and it created two primary partitions,one 79 GB
for the windows, and the other 86 mb for bootloader.
So tomorrow, I will be installing debian on the remaining space.
Now my question is, What should I choose? Logical volume? or Primary Volume?
I think I cannot create more than 4 primary volumes on a hdd, and
since two are already
occupied, I should create
/home, /, /usr and /var all logical volumes. (Choice of partitions on
the basis of discussions above)
Will choosing logical volumes harm any performance on the hdd?
I have also decided to choose xfce as my primary desktop,
unless I get more knowledgeable in using tiling window managers.
Apart from all that I would like to sincerely thank each and everyone of
you, I never felt that I was alone, always cheered up by you guys.
No wonder hdd are cheap in some countries say 100-150 $, but here
in this country, I just could not have afforded an hdd without getting
some credit from others.
So you guys do not know how much happy I am right now, and how much
relieved I am feeling now! Thanks a ton for my support. I can setup my debian
box now and prepare for gsoc! :)
> Do you have a live CD/DVD/USB/SD? You might ask your friend to let you
> download Knoppix, for instance, and burn it to a CD.
>
> If it boots the live/install image, power back down the proper way and
> attach the hard disk that is being recalcitrant. Then watch it like a
> hawk while it boots, to be sure you got the boot priorities in the
> BIOS right.
>
> BIOSses can be recalcitrant, too. It might take several tries to get
> the priorities right.
Thanks Joel, I had never heard of this tool, but luckily for me, the situation
of my hardisk was not so bad,
But I really appreciate the time and effort you guys take to reply to me.
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Regards,
Anubhav Yadav
Imperial College of Engineering and Research,
Pune.
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