Well, there's not much to go on here, but its fairly certain that its hardware failure somewhere. If the disk is still under warranty (and i believe that Quantum gave 3 yrs) then you can get it replaced at no charge. That may be the easiest route in the shortterm, unless you have a bit more info to go on.
--- Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After running a Win95/col2.2 dual boot for 2.5 years the col2 > suddenly > shutdown down one night in the middle of an internet session. I mean > the > screen just went dark. The bootup was .located in the hda mbr. On > reboot, boot magic failed with the error message that the linux > partition couldn't be found. Took the opportunity to upgrade to e2.4. > After two weeks it failed to bootup. Error message said something was > cycling too fast and it would have to shut down for five minutes. > Never booted up. Upgraded to w3.1. Lasted about three days before > did > the same thing. Boot and rescue disks failed to boot system. Shifted > to > Mandrake 7.0. After a month failed to boot. Error message said reading > 1 > bit in swap sync. Moved to Mandrake 8.0, 8.1 same results. The system > is > a Mainboard running a 200mmx Pentium with 64Meg memory and a Quantum 4 > gig big foot hd. Only thing I can think of for this is that the hd may > be going bad and files are getting corrupted in bad sectors. Any > opinions? ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
