Is this the only hard drive you have in her machine? If not, how many?
If you have more than one IDE device (hard drive, cdrom drive) attached to the same
IDE slot, make sure the jumper settings are set such that one device is master and the
other is slave.
Make sure the ribbons cables attachi
I'm trying to install Linux on a friend's computer. I bought
a new 17 GB hard drive, put it in my Linux box, then installed
my 10 GB drive in her box. The hard disk I had in my box is
brand new and worked beautifully. In her box, however, during
the install I get errors such as these:
hda: wr
