Author Topic: Trying to install linux on laptop + even trying DBAN- drive not detected (Read 634 times)

-Setro- · August 19, 2014, 07:08:55 PM

Hey, I am trying to install manjaro linux on this old laptop to see if it's any good, and since my other laptop is broken, and it does not detect the main hard drive.
It only shows the drive of the flash drive. It does not actually give me an error saying "drive not detected", it only shows the flash drive drive.
Even upon using DBAN, it says "DBAN failed, disk not detected"
Why is this happening?
I am trying this with an acer aspire 5315 series laptop.
Please help.

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blueblur121 · August 19, 2014, 07:16:13 PM

Are you me. That just happened to me.
Like seriously. It's even an acer aspire.
I used DBAN when I wasn't able to install Manjaro XFCE edition, but the hard drive failed.
Anyway, based on our situations, I think acer sucks at hard drives.

-Setro- · August 19, 2014, 07:19:36 PM

Quote from: blueblur121 on August 19, 2014, 07:16:13 PM

Are you me. That just happened to me.
Like seriously. It's even an acer aspire.
I used DBAN when I wasn't able to install Manjaro XFCE edition, but the hard drive failed.
Anyway, based on our situations, I think acer sucks at hard drives.

pretty much.
iirc the laptop had a BSOD and that's it- whenever I try to boot it up it says that a bootable device is not detected.

TomTheGeek² · August 19, 2014, 07:20:09 PM

the hard drive is most likely dead.

blueblur121 · August 19, 2014, 07:22:00 PM

Hard drive failure. How big is that flash drive of yours? You could use that instead.

#Ravencroft · August 19, 2014, 07:23:49 PM

If that was my laptop I would have thrown it in the dumpster by now.

-Setro- · August 19, 2014, 07:25:55 PM

flashdrive is 8gb lol
that's what i just installed DBAN on and tested out
same error

blueblur121 · August 19, 2014, 07:28:43 PM

Quote from: #Ravencroft on August 19, 2014, 07:23:49 PM

If that was my laptop I would have thrown it in the dumpster by now.

Old hardware can always be reused.

Quote from: -Setro- on August 19, 2014, 07:25:55 PM

flashdrive is 8gb lol
that's what i just installed DBAN on and tested out
same error

Okay, if you make an install CD/DVD of something, then you could select your flash drive as what you want to install it on. And some distributions are really loving small. 8 gigs should be plenty for something like Lubuntu or Puppy Linux.

Puppy linux is designed to be booted from a flash drive or disc. So if you have puppy linux on your flash drive, you could boot into it on any computer.

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You don't have to install Puppy (to hard disk) to use it. Simply burn the ISO to CD/DVD and boot the PC or laptop with it. Once booted, you can then install it to USB flash (see the Setup menu), so you can use it for booting the PC when a CD is not available.

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You don't have to save data to hard drive to work with Puppy. You can save data to USB flash or even to Internet storage (like www.drop.io ). When installed to USB flash, Puppy consumes only a little over 100 MB, or about 256 MB with OpenOffice. You can use the same USB flash (where Puppy is installed) for saving data.