Thank you Scott(0) and gold_finger, I will work through these over the next couple of days and let you know how it goes.
gold_finger - I can confirm the monitor is working, it is the one I am using now whilst writing this.
I use kvm switchbox, I did try connecting it directly without kvm too.
There are 2 dvd drives I have tried using both.
I have tried booting using an Ubuntu usb with persistence. It made no attempt to boot from the usb.
I connected the SATA to usb firstly to my LL machine, it gave an error box. At that stage I just wanted to get the files off for my brother (as it was the agreement so I could keep the computer at that time) so didn't write it down. I will reconnect it to LL and write the results down and let you know these.
I also connected it to a Xp computer and a Windows 7 computer, Xp did not pop up an error until I tried to browse the hdd for the files, Windows 7 popped up an error box as soon as it installed/connected, both xp and 7 said the drive needed formatting and gave a format now or cancel option, I clicked cancel. They both said 0 bytes on the hdd.
Edit: I have connected the hdd again now and these are a copy/paste of the results in LL.
"Failed to mount "NUKe".
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/bitsnpcs/NUKe: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sdb1" "/media/bitsnpcs/NUKe"' exited with non-zero exit status 13: ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error
Failed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for more details.
gold_finger - I can confirm the monitor is working, it is the one I am using now whilst writing this.
I use kvm switchbox, I did try connecting it directly without kvm too.
There are 2 dvd drives I have tried using both.
I have tried booting using an Ubuntu usb with persistence. It made no attempt to boot from the usb.
I connected the SATA to usb firstly to my LL machine, it gave an error box. At that stage I just wanted to get the files off for my brother (as it was the agreement so I could keep the computer at that time) so didn't write it down. I will reconnect it to LL and write the results down and let you know these.
I also connected it to a Xp computer and a Windows 7 computer, Xp did not pop up an error until I tried to browse the hdd for the files, Windows 7 popped up an error box as soon as it installed/connected, both xp and 7 said the drive needed formatting and gave a format now or cancel option, I clicked cancel. They both said 0 bytes on the hdd.
Edit: I have connected the hdd again now and these are a copy/paste of the results in LL.
"Failed to mount "NUKe".
Error mounting /dev/sdb1 at /media/bitsnpcs/NUKe: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sdb1" "/media/bitsnpcs/NUKe"' exited with non-zero exit status 13: ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error
Failed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for more details.