Re: FC3 gone

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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
>
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