On Thursday 12 April 2007 23:10, dwain wrote:

I have a 40gb drive that I obtained that has some i/o errors on it.  Is there a way to fix this so I can load opensuse on it?  Would it be worth the effort? The answer is usually no...

... however, there are some exceptions. What I *always* try is to boot from the CD or DVD and enter recovery mode. From there I run fdisk against the drive in question... fdisk /dev/hda Then I try to remove all of the partitions using the d command. Then I write/sync the drive with the w command. Then add a primary partition with the n command (make it primary) and span the entire drive. Then create a file system on the drive (doesn't matter ... ext2 is fine for this purpose... and check for bad blocks. Sometimes what appears wrong with a drive is a Microsoft thing... sometimes its a small set of bad blocks that can be *worked* around. Sometimes all of the above just fails because of surface damage, or circuit damage (whatever hardware). -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thursday 12 April 2007 21:10, dwain wrote:

I have a 40gb drive that I obtained that has some i/o errors on it. Is there a way to fix this so I can load opensuse on it? Would it be worth the effort?

By "I/O errors" do you mean bad sectors? It might be possible to get the device to map them out. But what is the cash value of a 40 GB drive even if it was in perfect working order? $25US? How long do you have to work to earn that? That's how much effort it would worth to try to make that device useable, if that's even possible.

Dwain

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