i there all,
i have registed myself with to get some help with a situation i have got

i have a crashed hard disk, which i have examend with mhdd. As a result of that, I have been told to scan it with ABRT.
I have made an fedora rel12 bootable USBstick to run fedora live, because it should contain ABRT.

in the terminal i have typed:
Code:
$ ls /dev/sd*
it replayed:
/dev/sda /dev/sdb

a can't find the first hard disk in the tab "file system" of the window "system monitor" and there are no partitions (/dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2 etc.) in the summary given by:
Code:
su -
fdisk -l
how can i start the hdd and scan it with ABRT or any other harddisk diagnostic/recovery tool

thanks allready u