It's looking really bad. However, I have seen some messages about similar
messages/problems being addressed by flashing the bios. I have received a
diagnostic utility from Gateway. This is a laptop.
Thank you for the advice. I'll keep trying.
Merry Christmas (in an hour, here in the W. Pacific),
Alan
On 12/24/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:22:02 +0000, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> Neither of these worked:
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
> dd: writing `/dev/hda': Input/output error
> 1+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.96744 seconds, 0.0 kB/s
>
> gparted shows the whole disk as unallocated. When I try to install a
> new partition, it wants to install a disklabel. The attempt fails.
It looks like a dead disk to me :(
--
Neil Bothwick
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operator during episodes of bugs or glitches.
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Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1-670-256-2043
I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must
share it with other people who like it.
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