I had a problem like this. I downloaded dban, ran the "quick" wipe which writes 0's to the hard disk, re-formatted, installed and everything has been perfect since. dban can be found here: http://dban.sourceforge.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike McCarty" <mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 10:40 AM Subject: Re: FC3 gone > CHERMAN@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > [snip Was Runing FC3, ran up2date, can't reboot] > > >the drive. I ran sfdisk on /dev/hda (the drive on which FC3 was > >installed) and got the following: > > > >Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... > >BLKRRPART: Permission denied > >OK > > > >Disk /dev/hda: 79656 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track > >Old situation: > >Warning: The partition table looks like it was made > > for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 79656/16/63). > >For this listing I'll assume that geometry. > >Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 > > > > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > >/dev/hda1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux > >/dev/hda2 13 4997 4985 40042012+ 8e Linux LVM > >/dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > >/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > > > >Any ideas would be appreciated? Just for informational purposes, before > >I installed FC3 I was running WinXP and it crashed also. That's why I > >installed FC3. Is it possible the hard drive is bad? > > > > > Having a PT which looks "different" from the actual physical disc is > not all that unusual. It's certainly possible that you have some kind of > hardware failure, but not necessarily the drive. Have you tried the disc > in a simliar computer? It could be the interface electronics. > > Mike > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
