Hi Rob, some options: Try partition magic and see if it give you an error?
Is the HD recognise correctly by the bios? If detection is set to auto try hard disk detection and leave it set as detected in the bios rather than set as auto detect. Is SMART hard disk monitoring enabled in the bios settings? GRC.com have an application called spinrite that may be of help, as it is supposed to detect signs/symptoms of HD failure (very slow but thorough). Regards Michael On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 09:39, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: > I have a 13Gb Hard drive which is probably stuffed but I thought I would ask > the list for advice before I biff it. > > First symptom was that it did not want to coexist with my other HD on my new > MOBO. > I managed to put it into another box and boot into Gentoo Live CD and scp > the files I needed to keep to my new hardware so nothing is lost. > > I planned to fit the drive into one of my sons' boxes but we had the > "coexistence" problem. > Tried using Gentoo Live-cd - cfdisk to remove partitions then create a fat32 > partition and did not get any errors. > Win 98 startup disk would not let us create partition > > Did a "low-level format" but still cannot create partition from ms-dos or > windows. > > Any ideas? > > Rob >
