Last time I said this, a lot of people yelled at me, but download a utility from
the drive manufacturer and do a low-level format.
jim
Quoting Greg Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm not sure if I just have really bad luck when it comes to harddrives, but
> it seems that every time I install any flavor of *nix on a drive that was
> formerly Winblows, I can't turn around and reinstall windows on the drive
> again without it not working or being awfully unstable. I'm not sure why this
> happens, it's a pity my 20gb drive no longer wants to work. I even went as
> far as to go back in the installer on Redhat, get in the fdisk, and create a
> new empty dos partition table, saved it, then rebooted, fdisk'd off a boot
> floppy, created a primary partition, rebooted, formatted it, then tried the
> installer. It didn't make it past the system checker thing at the beginning
> of the installer, gave some weird errors about the drive. Anyway, anyone else
> having this problem?
>
Ignorance is underrated
