[tlug] Help with HDD mounting problem

[Thomas Blasejewicz <nyuwa@example.com>]

Good evening
I have a little problem.
A little while ago it seemed the 500 GB SATA HDD in the desktop of my 
son died.
The other day I removed it and put it in a Dell Optiplex 745 running 
Linux Mint 17.2 - just to see, if it (the data) can still be accessed.

It took longer than usual (and the computer complained somewhat), but it 
started Mint AND allowed to mount that other HDD (having also full 
Windows XP installation on it), view and access all the data. That is 
just fine and my son will be happy.

However, since then I ALWAYS (every start/restart) get the following 
error message:
"Continue to wait or press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery".
This message persists even if I remove the drive from the computer.

I just retried: installing the drive, start PC, set it to "no auto 
mount" etc.
-> remove the drive -> Restart.
The BIOS pops up, saying:
"Keyboard failure
Drive 5 not found. Serial ATA, SATA 5"
-> I modified the BIOS, disabling SATA 5. That does not change anything.

Googling showed, that I am probably supposed to edit the fstab file.
But I do not know, what I am supposed to change therein.
Here is what I did:
(the computer has also a FDD (not mounted, reasons unknown) and 2 CD/DVD 
drives)

1)    WITHOUT the HDD
sudo blkid
[sudo] password for thomas:
/dev/sda1: UUID="6ddaac18-ecd7-47bb-9c3e-c9485aa2af23" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="ff511945-b85c-480d-ac30-08603c5e0ddd" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda6: UUID="7cd74a6f-3ca7-46c8-a96a-eac819d2a6a0" TYPE="swap"
2)    WITH the HDD (called Tsubasa)
sudo blkid
[sudo] password for thomas:
/dev/sda1: UUID="6ddaac18-ecd7-47bb-9c3e-c9485aa2af23" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="ff511945-b85c-480d-ac30-08603c5e0ddd" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda6: UUID="7cd74a6f-3ca7-46c8-a96a-eac819d2a6a0" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="C63403D43403C701" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb2: LABEL="M-cM-^CM-^\M-cM-^CM-*M-cM-^CM-%M-cM-^CM-<M-cM-^CM- " 
UUID="7A3E287F3E283713" TYPE="ntfs"

3)    fstab file WITH the HDD
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type> <options>       <dump>  <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=6ddaac18-ecd7-47bb-9c3e-c9485aa2af23 / ext4    errors=remount-ro 
0       1
# /home was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=ff511945-b85c-480d-ac30-08603c5e0ddd /home ext4    defaults        
0       2
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=7cd74a6f-3ca7-46c8-a96a-eac819d2a6a0 none swap    sw              
0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/A0B4CA4DB4CA261E /mnt/A0B4CA4DB4CA261E auto 
nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/disk/by-uuid/C63403D43403C701 /mnt/C63403D43403C701 auto 
nosuid,nodev,nofail,x-gvfs-show,noauto,x-gvfs-name=Tsubasa 0 0

* -> WITHOUT the HDD it is the same, except for the last two lines.

I would really appreciate, if somebody could tell me how I can convince 
the computer to
acknowledge, that there is no other HDD.
By the way, there was another HDD = no OS, just data. With that one the 
computer did not complain.
And I would like to restore that drive.

Thank you.
Thomas