On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 07:50:27PM +0530, Rony Bill wrote: >In order to avoid touching his data, I loaded Kubuntu 5.10 on the fourth >partition of the hdd. During installation in progress it did show a
Shirley ubuntu has a live cd you can use? >The installation went smoothly and I was able to boot into Linux as >well as M$ a couple of times and even backed up the last drop of his >data after that. Then I went on to demonstrate the bootup screen and how Error: Backups should have been done before the install. >to choose between the system and the system was booted into linux. It >got stuck at kernel panic. After a forced reset, the bios gave an error >for the hdd. Instead of the entire text of the hdd label like 'Samsung Sounds like the hard drive chose a bad time to die. Coincidence, or the hard drive exercises while installing stressed it just a bit too much. >1) Can this HDD be reprogrammed or forced with a low level format? Right >now the bios cannot even detect it. Worth trying. >2) Is there any software that detects the health of a HDD before it can >be loaded with Linux? In Windows? Not a clue. In Linux, try the SMART tools but I suspect they're either inaccurate or the results are open to interpretation. >3) What could have gone wrong in this case and what precautions do I a) coincidence b) stress >need to take to avoid such mishaps in future? Use a Live CD to show off the features. Take backups before you change anything. -- Satya. http://www.thesatya.com/ As I said before, I never repeat myself. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
