[chadfree] Re: Hard drive problem

yes..that old drive and the board are not getting along.  Ditch 
the drive.  I have run into this issue before at a client's law 
office.  Only replacing the HDD fixed it.

Mike wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> it's my to to ask for advice.
> 
> I picked up a pile of computer parts with an ECS K7SEM motherboard, AMD=
>  Duron XP1200 and 384 meg pc 133 ram, on the weekend and managed to get=
>  them working, by adding a formatted 10 gig 
> Fujitsu Model # MPG3102AT hard drive.
> 
> It worked fine with Win 98 so I reformatted the hard drive.
> 
> Checked the drive with Partition Magic 8 tools everything was fine.
> 
> Tried the Linspire 4.5 live Cd works great.
> Tried Knoppex live works fine.
> Tried Ubuntu live works great.
> 
> I decided to use the Ubuntu 4.10 install CD, allowed it to format the drive=
>  with 2 partitions works well.
> Decided to allow it to update to the latest version.
> text screens flashing by for 10 min then error message 
> 
> "Down loading too fast 5 min time out"
> Continued getting the same error for 1hr before canceling.
> 
> Reboot Ubuntu 4.10 reloads.
> 
> I decided to reformat the drive to use Knoppex.
> 
> Error no hard drive found!
> 
> Tried Partition Magic 8 =3D  Error 88 (no hard drive)
> Tried numerous boot disk, Win 95/98
> Put XP pro CD in passed all the diagnostics prior to install
> No hard drive error
> 
> Tried MaxBlast No hard drive
> 
> Put in old Connor 148meg hard drive all live Linux CD work.
> 
> What do I need to format the 10 gig drive so that it can be recognized by=
>  other OS's
> 
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