[CS-FSLUG] HD Formatting problems

[Don Parris]

On 1/13/06, warm38 at juno.com <warm38 at juno.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
> _______________________________________________

I have an idea.  Have fun with Xandros!  Either that or try
Ubuntu/Kubuntu.  I would also ask if you have posted your question on
the SUSE Linux English listserv?  At any rate, someone may be able to
tell you something about that HDD.

Blessings,
Don
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