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Mushie_Man
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Screwed Harddrive
#5171096 - 01/12/06 07:54 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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So the today i installed Linux, it fucked up so i tryed to reinstall windows with no success. I boot up the system from CD, i get to the first screen where its checking system hardware & software, then it should go to the blue screen and continue with the installation, but instead i just get a black screen.
So i figured id put the hard drive into my other system and format it through windows and try again, formatted fine but when it came to install windows i had the same problem.
Also, I now have problem with my master and slave settings, it wont detect both hard drive at the same time or non at all.
What to do?
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Re: Screwed Harddrive [Re: Mushie_Man]
#5171119 - 01/12/06 08:02 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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is your windows disc an install disc or reinstall disc?
what happened during your linux installation? what distro were you trying to install?
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Mushie_Man
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Re: Screwed Harddrive [Re: wilshire]
#5171186 - 01/12/06 08:32 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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It was a windows install disk, works fine when using on the other hard drive.
Linux RedHat, installation was fine, got it up and running. Once i connected my second hard drive it wouldn't boot up properly. I can still install Linux onto the drive just not windows, I'm wondering if Linux has change some of my hard drive setting , formats etc.
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Re: Screwed Harddrive [Re: Mushie_Man]
#5171199 - 01/12/06 08:37 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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You say you use auto detect to set Master slave on the drives? Try it manually.
It doesn't sound totaly fucked, any harddrives that I've totaly fucked up won't even be recognised during boot up. That your getting anywhere atall makes me think there's life in the old girl yet.
Cheak your settings agin with a fine tooth comb and don't relie on automatic settings.
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Re: Screwed Harddrive [Re: Mushie_Man]
#5171220 - 01/12/06 08:48 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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I'm assuming your using ATA (40 pin).
Set one hard drive's jumpers to master, the other to slave or alternatively, set them both to cable select.
Plug them both into the same cable, and then plug into your primary IDE port.
Go to your BIOS and confirm it will boot from CD, then HD after that. boot from windows install disk and use it to partition and format the disk you wnat to work with.
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Re: Screwed Harddrive [Re: blink]
#5171263 - 01/12/06 09:08 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well, i set the working H/D as master and the screwy one as slave, hoping that when the instalion part comes ill have the choice to wipe the partition on the screwed H/D, the computer didnt detect neither H/D but i carried on booting up with CD anyway, when it came to install, the setup couldnt detect any H/D either, so now im stumped.
I could just install windows on my working H/D, but its only 20GB and it contains all my documents and music.
My screwy hard drive is wokring to an extent, it just wont work with anything related to windows, it can still install linux and load knoppix. I just need to find a way to give it a clean full format and a kick up the ass.
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Re: Screwed Harddrive [Re: Mushie_Man]
#5171379 - 01/12/06 10:00 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Shit this happened to me before, and I can't for the life of me remember how I fixed it. Or if it was the fooked drive for that matter I shall ponder these mysterys tonight and get back to you tomorrow.
Ciao!
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Re: Screwed Harddrive [Re: Mushie_Man]
#5171491 - 01/12/06 10:29 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Well, i have just finished installing linux untill i can fix this problem, it's what im using to type this post. I have also found that my other H/D is fucked, which im not to impressed about.
I dont see the big deal with it, i much prefer windows. Theres alot more software and it doesnt fuck around with your hard drives. Im sure it has its uses, such as networks, servers ect, but its just not for me
So anyways, does anyone know where i cna get any decent software for this linux, iv tryed downloading aMSN, but it wouldnt install, anyone lend a link?
Thanks for the replies, Mushie Man
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Edited by Mushie_Man (01/12/06 10:57 AM)
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Re: Screwed Harddrive [Re: Mushie_Man]
#5171558 - 01/12/06 10:49 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Boot with a floppy disk (win98 for example) and run "fdisk /mbr" on the hard drive that you want to install windows onto that used to have linux on it. This should fix your problem.
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Re: Screwed Harddrive [Re: Mushie_Man]
#5171562 - 01/12/06 10:50 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Mushie_Man said: Well, i have just finished installing linux untill i can fix this problem, it's what im using to type this post. I have alos found that my other H/D is not fucked, which im not to impressed about.
I dont see the big deal with it, i much prefer windows. Theres alot more software and it doesnt fuck around with your hard drives. Im sure it has its uses, such as networks, servers ect, but its just not for me
So anyways, does anyone know where i cna get any decent software for this linux, iv tryed downloading aMSN, but it wouldnt install, anyone lend a link?
Thanks for the replies, Mushie Man
You have to tell us what distribution you are running for us to tell you how to access and install the vast amouts of software available. Most Linux software comes in "packages" and most distributions use a "package manager" to categorize and display the software options and to manage retrieving the software as well the actual installation.
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Re: Screwed Harddrive [Re: Seuss]
#5171566 - 01/12/06 10:52 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Seuss said: Boot with a floppy disk (win98 for example) and run "fdisk /mbr" on the hard drive that you want to install windows onto that used to have linux on it. This should fix your problem.
it will also break the currently working linux boot. just, FYI to the guy.
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Re: Screwed Harddrive [Re: Mushie_Man]
#5186387 - 01/16/06 09:18 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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If your HDD auto detection is screwy, maybe try a BIOS update?
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Re: Screwed Harddrive [Re: OJK]
#5186422 - 01/16/06 09:36 AM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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> If your HDD auto detection is screwy
There is a block of data at the start of the hard drive that Microsoft uses to determine the physical geometry (number of heads, tracks, etc) of the drive. This area is a Microsoft specific "standard", and most other OS vendor's do not use it, or use it for something else. When a drive has been formatted for unix, often this table is corrupt from a Windows point of view. Windows has a very difficult time with disks that are "corrupt" in this way. The only way I have found to fix the problem is to "fdisk /mbr" using an old win-98 boot floppy. I'm not sure if you can do a fixmbr to fix the problem from XP recovery console or not... I haven't tried...
The "fdisk /mbr" command writes a new Microsloth happy master boot record to the hard drive. If you are dual booting, or using a non-microsoft boot loader, then this command will probably break the OS making it difficult to boot. Of course, if you are wanting to reload Winblows onto the disk, this isn't an issue.
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Re: Screwed Harddrive [Re: Seuss]
#5187153 - 01/16/06 01:42 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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OK, thanks for the advice. Unfortunately i haven't an old boot disk. I haven't even a floppy disk to create one. Even if i did, i have a feeling my disk drive is past its better days.
It the moment I'm running windows on my 20GB hard drive. Much of an inconvenience in runs as slow as a slug and i only have 900MB left after deleting some files.
I'm going to boot knoppix on my 60GB and use QTParted(?) to format my hard drive or see what options i have available.
I was wondering if i can get a boot cd, same as a 98 book disk, just on CD? That may solve my problems.
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Re: Screwed Harddrive [Re: Mushie_Man]
#5187648 - 01/16/06 04:01 PM (18 years, 2 months ago) |
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I now have windows XP installed on my 60GB with help from DiskWizard.
Though i still have the same problem with the auto detect boot setting. Before i installed Linux i had no problems, but now it wont detect both hard drives at once. I have manually set the primary and secondary slave settings but its still having problems detecting the H/D's.
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