<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Try new cables. Check condition of hdd connector sockets</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Jeff Hunt <jeffhunt90@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 24/04/2016 4:15 pm (GMT+12:00) </div><div>To: wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz </div><div>Subject: [wellylug] Curious disk problem </div><div><br></div></div>This is too embarrassing to take to the world community but I wonder<br>if anyone has any clues.<br>I have bought 4 1TB sata drives off Trademe and they are great and<br>running Ubuntu and Mint but the one in my wife's machine failed<br>routinely with 'grub rescue' but would run on a second boot as long as<br>it wasn't turned off - using CTRL Alt Delete.<br><br>I assumed it was a minor installation problem. We limped by and I<br>reinstalled with Ubuntu 16.04 when it arrived but the disk does the<br>same thing except Ctrl Alt Delete doesn't work but starting the<br>computer on a live USB and then restarting onto the disk works. Quite<br>weird. It seems that something can sometimes linger on from a previous<br>start to encourage the disk to boot. I did a grub recover using the<br>instructions on gparted so it is now on its third grub install and<br>second OS.<br><br>I considered reformatting to GPT, but on a Bios computer that seems to<br>be too much for my tiny brain.<br><br>I'm reluctant to throw away a fairly new 1TB drive that seems to work<br>very well if appropriate magic is performed first but it not a happy<br>situation.<br><br>Any thoughts?<br><br><br>-- <br>Wellington Linux Users Group Mailing List: wellylug@lists.wellylug.org.nz<br>To Leave: http://lists.wellylug.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/wellylug<br></body></html>