Re: Installation Woes7.10 on a spare 500 GB drive and it a



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From: Liam Proven <lproven@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, January 4, 2008 4:37:17 PM
Subject: Re: Installation Woes7.10 on a spare 500 GB drive and it a

On 04/01/2008, Keith Clark <keithclark1966@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am trying to install Ubuntu and it always fails saying that the
formatting has failed. Any ideas?

Can you try using something else to do the partitioning and
formatting? E.g. PartitionMagic, or the SystemRescueCD, or Knoppix, or
something like that? That would give you a bit more info to go on...e

Nope, Ubuntu is all I have. XP works fine with the drive. I cannot seem to mount and windows drive.

Keith




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