[CS-FSLUG] HD Formatting problems

[warm38 at juno.com]

Greetings, All!
I recently had a motherboard die suddenly.  I was reading my KMail under SuSE 10.0 and suddenly it was as though the plug had been pulled.  I replaced the PowerSupply and no change.  Oops.  I replaced the motherboard and put an unused WD 40GB HD (I didnt want to step on all the other stuff I had in the original HD) in the case.  I started it up and tried several ways to format it and install SOME operating system.  Nothing worked -- either they would not format the HD (XP, SuSE), or only do a small portion (W98), or they would not load onto the HD (XP, W98 -- SuSE never got that far).  I finally tried Xandros 3 and it worked just fine with no changes and no problems.  Huh?
Any ideas why nothing wanted to work with the drive?  I could get PartitionMagic7 to make a 40GB formatted partition for Fat32 or NTFS, but when I tried to load the OS, nothing. 
Ideas?  Until then, I'm Xandros on my Linux box.
wade
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