On Thursday 25 April 2002 08:51 am, Charles Griffin wrote:
FWIW, when I tried to install SuSE 7.3 on my second hard drive (a Maxtor), which had been subjected to three or four other distro installations, it just wouldn't install. It kept hanging at various points during the installation. So, I went to the Maxtor website, downloaded their little low-level format program, and proceeding to perform a low-level format on the troublesome drive.
The next time I tried to install 7.3, it worked flawlessly. Now, I don't know if the low-level format utility did the trick, or if it was just a coincidence, but I do know that when I get around to trying 8.0, I'll be firing up that little Maxtor utility.
Just my $0.02.
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I'd be curious to know that if you had done: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=1k If your problem would have also been solved. I have had to do that on at least one occassion when installing over a previous OS, even after doing a software format, but usually only when using a different file system (NTFS, ext2, XFS, ...) -ronc -- 9:03am up 2 days, 16:04, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.06, 0.06