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Here is a little trick that I learned so you don't have to be dependent on winblows or dos to do some low level stuff. Boot the system with either the RedHat or Mandrake cd's. For RedHat type "linux rescue" and for Mandrake type "rescue" at the prompts. When you get to a prompt type "dd bs=1k if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd?" with hd? being whatever drive you are working on, probably hda. This will fill the drive with zero's, completely blanking it. I have also rescued some floppies this way that were previously thought to be no good.<BR>
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 16:06, ron browning wrote:
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<B>Mark Robson <markrobson@yahoo.com></B> wrote:
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Yeah, I'm familiar with the secondary cd syndrome. <BR>
And the Win95 must be left over from the first o/s on<BR>
the drive years ago. Probably never did a low-level<BR>
format while I upgraded through 98, ME, to XP, and<BR>
just copied everything off the smaller drive over when<BR>
I got the 80gb. I am concluding there's no better<BR>
solution than to pull out my data files and wipe the<BR>
drive clean. Too many trap doors and dead ends, not<BR>
worth the time to fix them all.<BR>
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Thanks all again for your help. <BR>
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Mark<BR>
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--- JB wrote:<BR>
> I had a third HD on the secondary with the CD burner<BR>
> as a slave and I had nothing but trouble. It was an<BR>
> old 240mb HD which had to be formatted as fat16<BR>
> which<BR>
> may be why there were problems but it didn't make<BR>
> sense that the system didn't accept it. I yanked it<BR>
&! gt; out and all was fine. I was wondering how you were<BR>
> able to install win 95 on the secondary? My limited<BR>
> experience is that Windows will only install to the<BR>
> Primary master (C) drive. Also Windows won't let you<BR>
> install if any drive has anything but vfat on all<BR>
> the<BR>
> HD's. If I were in your situation I would probably<BR>
> try<BR>
> unplugging that third drive and see if the symptoms<BR>
> change. Just make sure the main power to the box is<BR>
> off before tinkering around with unplugging the data<BR>
> cable to the HD, if that is something you consider<BR>
> trying. If that isn't the problem, at least you<BR>
> would<BR>
> have the problem narrowed down a little more?<BR>
> <BR>
> --- Mark Robson wrote:<BR>
> > Aha, right. Found the disk, ran the full<BR>
> > diagnostics<BR>
> > - 2:52:34 elapsed. No physical errors. So is<BR>
> there<BR>
> > something about running two F! AT mountpoints that<BR>
> > might<BR>
> > cause a system-freeze? I can't see why would<BR>
> Linux<BR>
> > be affected by the bad win-drivers? Is the<BR>
> > partition<BR>
> > numbering sequence relevant (definitely an enduser<BR>
> > question, sorry) Seems to be not reproducible. <BR>
> > <BR>
> > If no obvious suggestions, no worries. I'm just<BR>
> > trying to get enough data off the FAT partitions<BR>
> to<BR>
> > format away the XP anyways, so if I'm okay to get<BR>
> > that<BR>
> > done, and then the issue is moot.<BR>
> > <BR>
> > Is there a good newbie link on backing up to CDRW?<BR>
> <BR>
> > I've saved the recent thread here on it, but I'm<BR>
> not<BR>
> > ADMIN enough to really get it yet. <BR>
> > <BR>
> > Thanks all again for the help. <BR>
> > <BR>
> > Mark<BR>
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