Hi Pete et al! pete atkinson wrote:
has anybody come across this ?
I have (had) a Seagate 38410 8.4G hard disk that I was going to use on one of my machines.. I had had a couple of issues with it so thought that I would run a thorough scandisk on it (yes I know tis windows - please excuse this....) I reached cluster 1,510,000 or thereabouts and then this clunking noise emanates from the drive - now it is completely shagged,
Yeah, I have indeed come across this noise. A friend of mine had a new Seagate (6.5 G). The vendor refunded him. This may not necessary. The Seagate disk utilities may be able to restore your hard disk. A good idea is to download the hard disk utility for your hard disk make. Personally, I don't use Seagate HD's, but Seagate has excellent tools as well. To restore your hard disk to factory standard, you must choose to overwrite your entire hard disk or separate partitions with binary zeros. After such an operation your hard disk will work as new. I prefer Quantum hard disks because of their stability. pete atkinson wrote:
the bios will not recognise it and there is a screech on power up
As to your problem having your bios recognize your drive, try resetting the CMOS. pete atkinson wrote:
basically windows has appeared to extract its revenge on yet another user.........
I agree that there is no difference between worms planted by a pathetic virus distributor or an OS manufacturer ... SuSE Linux works absolutely fine, if you clean your hard disk the right way before partitioning and installing. Cheers, Niels -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq