You might try using something like PQMagic's Partition Magic to delete the
/hda1 partition completely, then start over.
If it is an old drive, and the drive optimisation settings were not quite
correct, I think that could have done something to the drive itself. Though
I've never experienced this, I have heard this can happen.
I often have problems similar to this when I do drive image restoration on
Gateway computers--Gateway is notorious for writing failed installs and bad
partition tables to their machines. Usually I get Partition Error #113 if I
try to look at the drive with Partition Magic, but I'm so accustomed to this
now that if Drive Image will not write to the drive, I automatically delete
the partition.
It is a possibility that you may have corrupted the partition table and the
MDK install cannot recognise it beyond the error...
It's a shot..
--Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Well, I've really done it now. The hard drive won't format hda1. I get
> to the part where formatting partitions takes place and it seems to hang
> at "formatting hda1". It has been stuck there for 2 hours. I did an
> upgrade and that went ok, except I checked disk optimization and when I
> rebooted after the install it hung at optimizing disks. Now I can't even
> get past the formatting. Anybody need some spare parts? If there is no
> help for this I guess I will try loading the other OS and see if my hard
> drive is trashed. Any help would be appreciated. Dennis
>
>
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