HDD problem

[Ranke]

Everytime when I run cfdisk to create partition it says: FATAL ERROR CAN't OPEN DISK DRIVE

I am new in this OS

please help

[OErjan]

hmm, I hope we can, if you read the qoute blow and folow my advise from it we have some more info to work with

here you have a a script to give you a extremly verbose description on what is on your computer, some things will be shown several times, as to what is detected and what works... that requires some knowledge, but this should give most info you likely need.

#hardwarescript.sh
#/bin/sh
true ; ( set -x
sudo su
cat /etc/fstab
fdisk -l
mount
dmesg
) >& result.txt

copy the text to a textfile called hardwarescript.sh save it in /home/knoppix and make it executable.
to make it executable you open a console, terminal... (it is the icon like a computerscreen) and issue the comand
chmod +x /home/knoppix/hardwarescript.sh
to run the script type /home/knoppix/hardwarescript.sh

with info gained from that text we can help without guessing much.