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mobyduck

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Registered: 2011-09-06

Posts: 2

Slitaz can't detect hard drives

Hi, I burned Slitaz iso image to cd and got a feeling that it is a wonderful operating system to my very old computer. I'd like to install Slitaz to hard disk but Slitaz do not recognize any hard disks.  For instance GParted says 'No devices detected'.

I guess that is because my one and only hard disk is SCSI.  Something I can do to get Slitaz find that disk? Thanks.

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Slitaz can't detect hard drives

Try this:

http://ad.cwcworx.net/slitaz/slitaz-3.0-scsi.iso

Posted in the old forum:

http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/comment/9103#Comment_9103

mobyduck

Member

Registered: 2011-09-06

Posts: 2

Re: Slitaz can't detect hard drives

Thanks, it works.

Unfortunately when I made a new partition with Slitaz's GParted, it corrupted the existing ntfs partition. Never had this kind of problems with GParted before. Windows won't start and the partition can't be read from Slitaz ('unrecoverable errors').  Fortunately I had an old Ubuntu live-cd that was able to mount the corrupted partition and I could backup some data files.

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Slitaz can't detect hard drives

I had the same issue before and it was caused by Windows XP.

I originally formated the drive to NTFS using GParted (with Ubuntu) and then later installed XP on the drive. XP ran sluggish and at one point crashed. The drive wouldn't boot and not even SliTaz or Ubuntu could access it. I recovered my data though, but it was still a pain. In the end I just let XP complete format and install itself. Haven't had a problem since.