Jim, As you have probably worked out by now, your problems stem from the fact that DBan erases everything on the hard drive including the partition tables which are the index to the 'filing cabinet'. Your easiest way to get going again would be to start by creating a new primary partition of any flavour so that the computer will actually see the hard drive - at the moment its skulking in a dark corner of the office and the computer can't even see it. These web pages will give you the necessary tools - I would suggest trying Ranish for a start - that will let you make a linux-style partition from the outset (ext2). Here is a link to the page where you can download the files for a floppy disk - http://tinyurl.com/5zne7 - Don't forget to first format the floppy disk with the 'bootable' option selected! This page gives more options and instructions - http://tinyurl.com/c9ad3n and, failing that, the utility on this page will let you make a DOS (FAT32) partition on the drive.
Once you have a partition and can boot from the CD, the Ubuntu Live CD will sort out everything else. Good luck, Ian ______________________ Ian W. Wright Sheffield UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
