Blank Navigation system screen

[fred_dot_u]

Neither the dead drive nor the good drive from my wife's machine appears on my Ubuntu box or my Windows 7 computer. When running the manage plug-in, I get a message that the drive has to be initialized. Nope. Not going to blow up a working system drive.

I'm a bit disappointed that the linux machine didn't see it. I was somewhat sure that the OS would be linux in some form or another.

[davewill]

I'd just do a dd of the entire drive into a backup file, then try restoring it on a new drive. Don't sweat not being able to mount the filesystems.

[fred_dot_u]

I'm not much of a whiz when it comes to linux and didn't pursue how to find the device that would not present any file system. I used df (or was it fd?) to see the device list, and only the system drive and mount points appeared. When the Windows approach told me to init the drive, that was it for me.

I was hopeful that I could image the drive and put it on an SSD, to get from the moving parts aspect of the original, but I also recalled that there may be a problem that is not related to the failed drive.