Re: Another Tale of Woe
From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 06/19/04
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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 02:55:48 +0000 (UTC)
efflandt@xnet.com (David Efflandt) writes:
]On 16 Jun 2004 17:02:29 -0700, Michael P Gabriel <axipolti@yahoo.com> wrote:
]> Actually, it is my second!!
]>
]> Hi!
]>
]> I wanted to get my 77 year old brain exercised so it doesn't turn to
]> gorgonzola cheese when I get old.(er?)
]>
]> So I got hold of a copy of Suse Linux. 7.0...
]>
]> Then I got a free copy of Mandrake 10.0...
]>
]> Now I'm stuck with a 40g hdd that CANNOT be formatted. Partition Magic
Sorry what did you do?
Did you try to install either of those? Did you manage to install them?
Then what did you do?
]> gives me an error message...before it even opens. My V-Com Disk
What error message. "It opens"== what opens? and what do you mean by
"opens"
]> Utility program can't do a thing. I tried to get the WHOLE disk
What do you try to get it to do? What error emssage do you get?
]> formatted when I loaded WIN XP on lonely 2g partition. No dice! I
Whole disk formatted how?
]> have a program from Western Digital that creates a boot disk which
]> will do the job. It tells me to insert a formatted floppy, I do, and
"It"-- what is it?
]> then it reads there is not enough room on the floppy, try a different
]> medium. I reformatted the floppy and tried again. Same nonsense. It
]> wouldn't work when I burned it on a CD, and then booted the CD rom
It wouldn't work-- what wouldn;t work?
Ie, you really need to give us information in order that we can help you.
]> drive.
]>
]> Must I throw away a 40G hard drive?
]Western Digital should have a diagnostic program (on their web site if it
]did not come with the drive) that can be run from a bootable DOS floppy.
]It can to a non-distructive test, or a destructive test (that tries
]writing/reading 1's and 0's), or can wipe the drive to all zeros to start
]fresh. So unless the drive is damaged or defective, it should be fixable,
]even if that means wiping all data from it.
]I don't know if your problems originated from some disk overlay system
](which should only be used if your BIOS does not support drives that
]size), or Gateway GoBack (which may use an unknown partition type), or
For Linux that is irrelevant. It uses the bios ONLY to boot the Linux OS.
Linux never uses the bios at all.
]something changing the geometry of your partition table (heads/cylinders).
]Both 64-bit WinXP Pro beta and SuSE 9.1 attempted to change my disk
]geometry on the fly (from 240 heads to 255 heads), but I recognized what
]SuSE was trying to do before it changed anything, due to all the work I
]had to do to fix my partition table when 64-bit XP messed it up
](partitions no longer ended on cyl. boundaries).
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