Hard disk drive not recognized by Linux any more

hello
if your disk showed typing
sudo fdisk -l
you can try to restore grub from liveCD
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling from LiveCD using method 3
Fabio

I've already tried to restore GRUB using a live CD of Lucid, I've tried to chroot to my system partition (after binding /dev, /proc and /sys) to reinstall the kernel but nothing worked. With a live CD of Maverick my hard disk doesn't show up in Gparted and it doesn't even show up in the /dev directory.

The disk is listed in fdiskl -l ?

No. The disk isn't present anywhere: not in gparted, not in the disk utility, not in the /dev directory, nowhere… But the disk works as GRUB succeeds to load.

Hello
The grub screen with the choises appear regularry?
If Yes, can you try this?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1399810

Hello,

The GRUB screen appears every time. I've already tried to replace the line root=UUID=XXXX by root=/dev/sda but it hasn't solved the problem. The system stopped booting, told me the error message and gave me a busybox shell where I've seen that my hard disk drive wasn't present under the /dev directory.

Hello Geek87
The partition table is corrupted.
You can try to restore it follwing this guide
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery
Good luck
Fabio

Partition table corrupted

Hi!

My partition table isn't corrupted at all because I can mount my hard disk when I use a live CD of Lucid. My problem occurs when I try to boot Maverick from my hard disk. In addition when I boot from a live CD of Maverick I can not see my hard disk. There is a bug in Maverick but I don't know in which part of the system.

Bye.

@Fabio Marconi.
If Lucid's Live CD is able to see partition table and not Maverick Beta one, it is a bug, and nobody in Answer part of Launchpad will be able to solve this issue.
@Geek87
Can you test and confirm previous point.
@Fabio Marconi
Could you restore bug status of this question after Geek87 confirmation.

Yes, I confirm that Lucid live CD see my partition table. I've used the live CD to chroot to my system partition in my hard disk (after binding /dev, /proc and /sys) in order to update my installation of Maverick and to restore GRUB 2. So the bug is still here with the latest Maverick kernel.

I will not be able to follow this issue.
@Geek87
Could you boot on Live Maverick to check if System->Administration->Gparted see the disk. This data could be interesting for people handling the bug.

I've already done it and not, Gparted can't see my hard disk.

Could you open a new bug report.

Title:
    Lucid able to read partition table, Maverick Beta not.
Package:
    gparted
Contents:
    Motherboard: A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard
    SATA controller: integrated Silicon Image SATA controller, the SiI 3112
    Boot from Ubuntu Live CD with option "Try but don't install".
    Run System->Administration->Gparted
    1) Lucid 10.04.1: all partitions are correctly detected
    2) Maverick Beta: the disk itself is not detected

The package data is wrong, but people managing gparted will probably be able to change to right one. I'm afraid it's a kernel issue, which is totally outside my expertize.
Please before raising, reproduce exactly the report error. Testing with official CD will avoid to provide configuration data, CD version is enough by itself.
I will try to follow progress of this bug.