[WBEL-users] RE: Corrupted WBEL Format

[Rafael Baquero S.]

I think your hdd could be damaged. But the funny thing is that winblows 
installs and runs normally.

A question here. When you mention that winblows installs correctly, is this a 
fresh install?, i.e. do you create a partition, format, and install or do you 
use the computer manufacturers restore utility? If you have used a restore 
program and if you have a XP cd or win 2000 cd available maybe you could try 
a fresh winblows install. By fresh I mean manually delete any existing 
partitions, manually create partitions for winblows, format, etc. If you get 
similar error messages then it is probably a failure in the workstation's 
hdd.

Hope this helps.

Rafael.

On Thursday 29 July 2004 11:43, Ed Morrison wrote:
> One important piece of information I forgot...Winblows will install and
> run normally.....
>
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Morrison [mailto:emorrison@ncen.org]
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 9:40 AM
> To: 'whitebox-users@beau.org'
> Subject: Corrupted WBEL Format
>
> 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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