On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:21 AM, John Heinen
Thank you all, I guess I am to square one though. The modem problem is not relevant right now. There is something wrong with my old hard drive, its only 10 gig and all used for linux partition but it won't execute anything, even if I load another program e.g. kubuntu, it loads but no action. Is there a repartition program for Linux exclusive hard drive
Boot the rescue mode and run badblocks on it. If it's the first drive(and should be) do: badblocks -v /dev/hda OR, if it is been seen as a SATA/SCSI disk(which they started doing recently, do: badblocks -v /dev/sda That will list any bad sectors. Or, grab a copy of the Ultimate Boot CD http://web0.v608.ncsrv.de/data/ubcd411.zip unzip it and burn the ISO. I generally use the IBM/Hitachi utility to test my drives.
Please send no flowers or sympathy cards yet, maybe there is drive life hereafter.
Good luck. With drives, you can do some work arounds, but once they get bad sectors, I get leery of them and just use them for test purposes(trying a new distro). PS, Please try to trim down your quotes. Don't forget we still have people on dial up. Thanx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org