[CLUE-Tech] Could it be the Hard Drive?

[Gary Threlkeld]

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Michael Riversong" <mriversong at earthlink.net>
>To: <clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 7:57 PM
>Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Could it be the Hard Drive?
>

> Just tried installing Red Hat 7.3 on a generic computer with a huge hard
> drive & lots of memory.  This started when i tried uninstalling AOL, and
> their uninstall program wiped out the Win 98 system registry.  I didn't
> care, because as you know i'm not that fond of Win 98 anyway.  I tried
> reinstalling Win 98, which didn't take, and then Win NT, which had
> strange problems and hung up on an update procedure.  Finally i decided
> we might as well make this a Red Hat machine.  In all three installation
> tries, i got past the formatting and initial package sorting sections,
> and then it did an unexpected exit and a killall.
>
> I'm beginning to think that the hard drive is bad, but would like to
> survey comments from folks here, in case someone has seen this before
> and it was something else.  Thanks!
>
>
> Michael Riversong
>

Michael -

Not clear as to the steps that you took between tries of the Win98, WinNT,
and RH7.3
but if you just tried to stick in another OS and install I'll confess that I
have had
problems with that idea when changing OS's.

Need to low-level format the drive using the hard drive vendor's program and
then
try again with your OS of choice - obviously LINUX.

Gary