install trouble - hard disk?

[Mar Shal]

thanks for your suggestions

I will do that in a few minutes after I have backup my data.

I think it would take a long time to test if it would work out or not.
>> Maxtor 6y120LO
I am not quite sure is it a SATA drives.

Thanks  again.


2007/3/31, Carsten Aulbert <carsten at welcomes-you.com>:
>
> Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> > Mar Shal wrote:
>
> >> Maxtor 6y120LO
>
> >     Is that one of the new SATA drives?  I'm told that uses a special
> > procedure, though I don't know what it is.  (My computers are
> > 6-7YO)...ya might Google it or see the Wiki...
>
> No that's a 120 GB PATA drive, so no problem from this side.
>
> Although I have no direct clue what is wrong during the installation, my
> suggestion would be to try the text based installer from ubuntu which
> has never let me down (so far).
>
> Another note: If possible, try to low level format the hard drive once
> (IIRC maxtor has a tool on their home page which can check the harddrive
> and perform a low level format). But please do this only, if you are
> certain that all data can be erased from the disk!
>
> My suggestion would be:
>
> download maxtor tool/put it on floppy disk
>
> run a drive fitness test on your hard drive
>
> low level format
>
> try the ubuntu alternate installer
>
> HTH
>
> Carsten
>
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