[WBEL-users] RE: Corrupted WBEL Format

[Rafael Baquero S.]

Good luck, Ed.

If you can fix this please post your solution. I am curious as to what the 
problem might be.

Rafael.

On Thursday 29 July 2004 13:12, Ed Morrison wrote:
> Rafael,
>
> Yes, the winblows install was a fresh install where I had it create a
> partition and install in it.  I can manually delete/remove partitions,
> add partitions, format them and install to them with winblows but not
> Linux.  It's very curious.  I am working with Jeremy's suggestion now.
>
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: whitebox-users-admin@beau.org
> [mailto:whitebox-users-admin@beau.org] On Behalf Of Rafael Baquero S.
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:44 AM
> To: whitebox-users@beau.org
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] RE: Corrupted WBEL Format
>
> 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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