[ubuntu-my] hard disk can't fdisk etc

[Taisir]

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Dear Ubuntu gurus, geeks & fans,

I have an old laptop (thinkpad 240x) - with no internal floppy / cdrom.

It has 12G hard disk with some "tik tik" sound during booting (bad
sector maybe?) - but operation inside WIN2000 is OK.

Current partition as follow :
hda1 = NTFS WIN2000 6G
hda5 = FAT32 5.5G
hda6 = FAT32 0.5G

* hda5 & hda6 was just created inside WIN2000 without any problem,
format & chkdsk also OK.

I want to install Ubuntu, but since it has no CDROM I took out the Hard
disk and connect it to other PC + IDE adapter.

The hard disk detected well, but it always failed when come to FDISK
(normal fdisk, gparted, ubuntu installer etc) - error message about Bad
Sector continues coming out but PC not freeze, and "tik-tik" sound from
hard disk also keep coming out..

I think it has to do with bad sector inside hda1.

Does anybody have idea to fix this, or at least how to make Linux ignore
hda1?


Regards,
TAISIR


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