On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 04:13 +0100, John Bowden wrote: > Try booting with a live distro and see if it sees your sata drive, it > seems that either the drive or the controller chip may have bit the > dust Or the power supply. I was given a few apparently dead computers that had suffered a surge. In two of them, only the power supply was flakey. Replacing that got everything else working. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.