Greetings to all you techies 'out there',
I'm wondering can anyone give me some clues as to what happened to this Seagate 40 Gb hard drive I was messing around with the other day.
I was using Clonezilla to try to get a newly cloned XP system to boot on a disk that previously had contained a few different partitions, one of which had Ubuntu on it. I've used Clonezilla for this before and it's worked flawlessly - but this time, on the reboot where the OS is supposed to be initialized (or something), instead, rather than offer the option to bypass the CD and boot from the hdd, it would go back to starting up the install option of the XP CD;
The XP partition was the only one recognized by the XP CD, so I used Part Ed Magic to delete the non-NTFS partitions, thinking that would fix it, but instead the hdd acts like a brick now, and worse than a brick, since whichever IDE channel it's plugged into, it prevents that channel from detecting itself and any other device on that channel (jumpers set to cable select), causing big time delay in boot while the BIOS trys and fails to detect said items.
Since Bios can't detect the drive I can't try recloning or even wiping the drive so I can start over with it - any one have any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Mikel