On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:39:14PM -0700, Maheshwar Singh wrote:
>
> My machine has suddenly stopped booting, i get a primary disk
> failed message. I'm able to reinstall the software, the hdd is
> recognised there. I get no error message, even when i drop all
> partitions and use diskdruid to search for bad blocks. I used
> fdisk /mbr with a dos floppy as well. It gives a no hdd present
> message. I'm able to use my machine using the boot disk. How do
> i solve this problem.
>
To me this seems like a damaged MBR on your hda. That is why it
is not seen by M$ fdisk. Since the MBR is used only by the boot
loader, installation of Linux would go though, if the rest of
the hard disk is otherwise okay.
It is unlikely, you can use this HDD as a primary master any
longer. Best would be to make it into slave and keep using it
for not-so-critical stuff.
I have faced a similar situation with a 1 Gig disk a few years
ago ...
Just my POV.
Bish
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