A few things to check:
1. Does the motherboard / BIOS detect the hard drive?
2. Is it formatted? The Linux installer should be able to see it, but it will be unable to mount it or use it.
3. If it is formatted, have you tried using it? Mounting file systems involves a command like:
mount /dev/sdc3 /media/disk-2
You will need to create a folder called "disk-2" at /media in order to mount it there.
4. If you are using a SATA drive, does your distro support them? Older distros, such as ones from before 2004, and Damn Small Linux, will not support these properly.
If the computer cannot recognize an external hard disk, it would be virtually impossible to format it. There must be a problem with the hard disk. Consider replacing it or taking it ti where you bought it.
When the hard disk is dysfunctional or has crashed, the laptop cannot detect it. The error message 'No hard disk drive 0' will appear as a result.
No, you will not have to remove an external hard disk each time you turn your laptop off.
HDD is an abbreviation for Hard Disk Drive.
Probably the disk is bad. I had this happen and I inserted another disk and it recognized it.
The operating system is Ubuntu Linux. It has a 4 GB Solid State hard disk Drive.
The best way, I think to answer that is to define what a computer (or in this case the motherboard of the computer) needs to find or identify a hard disk. A hard disk needs a power source, a connector to attach it to the motherboard, and a controller to talk to the microprocessor of the computer. If any of these things fail the hard disk will not function and the computer will not recognize it. In general when you see the message "hard disk not found" its because the computer can't recognize the hard disk. This can be from a bad cable (that connects the hard disk to the motherboard), no power to the hard disk, or a failed controller. In my experience, its usually a bad cable but there are times when the hard disk itself will fail. Generally, hard disk cables are far more fragile than hard disks.
Get a USB adaptor.
Yes. You can get an external hard drive case and put the hard drive in that to convert it to an external USB hard disk.Your laptop would have had a 2.5 inch hard disk. Make sure you find an external hard drive case which accepts laptop-sized 2.5 inch hard disk. Also you must keep in mind what type of interface your hard disk uses. If it is SATA, you will need a case which supports it, as opposed to regular ATA-100 (now being called PATA).Put your laptop's old hard disk into that external hard drive case & bingo, its now an external USB disk that you can plug into any computer! Another answer Alternatively, you can purchase a USB to IDE cable and temporarily connect the drive to a desktop computer to retrieve your files.
A PATA connector
you probably need to clean the disc of fingerprints or grease. If that does not work then try restarting your computer then putting the disc back in or go into your drives and see if theres a virus or something is wrong.
Some famous brands of laptop hard disk drives are Micropolis, Rodime, Lapine, NEC, Tandon, Microscience, and CMI. These names are not very recognizable to the general public, but are considered the top in the field.