Installation Woes7.10 on a spare 500 GB drive and it a

[Gerald Dachs]

Am Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:43:54 -0800 (PST)
schrieb keithclark1966 at rogers.com:

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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> Sent: Friday, January 4, 2008 4:37:17
> PM Subject: Re: Installation Woes7.10 on a spare 500 GB drive and it a
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> On 04/01/2008, Keith Clark <keithclark1966 at rogers.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to install Ubuntu and it always fails saying that the
>  formatting has failed.  Any ideas?
> 
> Can you try using something else to do the partitioning and
> formatting? E.g. PartitionMagic, or the SystemRescueCD, or Knoppix, or
> something like that? That would give you a bit more info to go on...e 
> 
> Nope, Ubuntu is all I have.

If you don't want to help to get more informations for the problem,
nobody can help you. What is the problem to download Knoppix
or the SystemRescueCD? 

>  XP works fine with the drive.  I cannot
> seem to mount and windows drive.

I am not a native english speaker, but this sentence
seems to be grammatically wrong, and makes no sense for
me. What do you want to say with this?

Gerald