[plug] Mandrake 7.2 installation hassles - update

[Dennis Plester]

The problem isn't my hard disk. I installed Mandrake 7.1 immediately after
my multiple failed attempts at 7.2, and it worked first time. My existing
Win 98 partition and install is still working as perfectly as one can expect
from such an OS, once I got the MBR back prior to the Mandrake 7.1
re-install. 

Thanks all the same.

Dennis.


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Matthew Skinner [SMTP:matt.skinner at peelhc.com.au]
	Sent:	Monday, 13 November 2000 8:30
	To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
	Subject:	RE: [plug] Mandrake 7.2 installation hassles -
update

	Hello All,

	I have had the same problem with the boot loader but with a REDHAT
	installation... Your problem is not with the software it is with you
	Hardware mainly your Hard Drive if you try and install any OS at all
you'll
	not get it to boot either.

	Sorry to say from what I have been reading about your problems.
You'll need
	to do a low level format of your hard drive.... This was the only
way I was
	able to get my 
	PC to even boot properly again...

	But just incase I am wrong try loading Microslot or some other OS
(NOT
	LINUX) because that is what I tried and it still did not work. From
what I
	remember of my problem the install had by freak accident corrupted
the boot
	sector, also Microsloth's Format /MBR did not work at repairing the
boot
	sector either. 

	Good Luck and Happy Formatting

	Matthew Skinner

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