[WBEL-users] Corrupted WBEL Format

[Jeremy Bowers]

If it's an IDE drive you can grab GWscan from here:  
http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?param=gwscan&st=kw

You have extract in from Windows, but once you boot from it, it'll give 
an option to write zeros to your drive.  Writing zeros should clean up 
any messy partitions ( and anything else on the drive) and will also let 
you know if your hard drive is on the verge of dying, (which it may be, 
according to the symptoms.  It's also able to fix some hard drive errors.

--Jeremy

Ed Morrison wrote:

>Hi Everyone,
>
>Seems as though I am on a role here.  I was trying to setup WBEL on a
>workstation that already had Win XP and Fedora Core 1 on it.  I was
>actually trying to replace the FC1 installation.  When I got to the Disk
>Partitioning screen during setup, I told it to delete and format any
>linux partitions.  It appeared to start ok then acted a little weird.
>Unfortunately I have been fighting with this long enough that I can't
>give exact details as to what happened.  Now it will not format or
>initialize the drive. At boot up (with WBEL or FC1 setup disks), when it
>tries to read hda it states that there are I/O errors in sectors 0, 2, 6
>and 8.  Now when I get to the partitioning screen I get these errors:
>
>1. The partition table on hda was unreadable and asks me if I want to
>initialize the drive and loose all data on the drive.  I tell it yes and
>then I'll get this error
>
>2. Input/Output error on /dev/hda  retry , ignore, cancel.  The same
>error occurs if I tell it to retry or if I tell it to ignore, this error
>will come up
>
>3. An error has occurred.  No valid devices were found on which to
>create a file system
>
>I have tried to boot to a knoppix cd, it will not boot into knoppix and
>will give me this error
>
>1.  ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk Read failed
>
>I also tried to use Partition Magic 5.  It will not boot into the
>working screen and will give me a partition error message
>
>Also used Partition Magic 4.  I can get to the working screen and create
>partitions but this will not change the previous error messages when
>trying to setup WBEL or FC1
>
>I used fdisk to delete all partitions and create new ones but still the
>same results and this includes fdisk /mbr.
>
>
>Help! .......please!!!  :-)
>
>Ed 
>
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