...and it shows nearly the same result: palimpsest shows sdb and fdisk doesn't display any information about it.
Then I've executed the dmesg command and got (of course) a veeeery long result. Probably to long be displayed completely in the terminal. Everything that was displayed will be attached to this message.
Afterwards I copied the dmesg log from /var/log and I'll attach it here, too (but I've to mention that this log file is already some days old).
I've done everything you aks me to do and here is the result:
This time my PC recognized the damaged HDD as sdb, while another HDD was sdc.
This picture shows the results of palimpsest of fdisk -l and fdisk -l /dev/sdb:
http:// picfront. org/d/7wlN
...and it shows nearly the same result: palimpsest shows sdb and fdisk doesn't display any information about it.
Then I've executed the dmesg command and got (of course) a veeeery long result. Probably to long be displayed completely in the terminal. Everything that was displayed will be attached to this message.
Afterwards I copied the dmesg log from /var/log and I'll attach it here, too (but I've to mention that this log file is already some days old).
OK, thanks and good luck ;)