hi, when I upgraded my computer recently, I slapped in a new hd, and left the old one as primary... essentially the new 160gb drive was labeled hdb and the old one is hda. I deleted the old drive and it is not mounted. How can I effectively remove it without getting the error that an ide drive has decreased?
removing hard drive... bios related?
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Hello! Terminal: "sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup" without the quotes in order to make a copy if you mess up something. Terminal: "sudo gedit /etc/fstab" and delete the line with the drive that is missing or put "#" in front of it. Remenber to save your changes before you close the textfile. Hope that works. Regards Jorn
I already tried that... the device isn't even listed in fstab. I'm thinking it's something with the bios.
what did you mean by delete? from which device did you boot anyway (hda, hdb or cdrom)?