Re: [Thinkpad] Problems with my IBM T30

Hi Bruce,

thanks for your e-mail. I have tried to do what your propose (to wipe the
MBR
and try to install an operating system) in two ways:

1) by using the tools in Knoppix. I have deleted completely the MRB and
I tried to install SuSE linux 10, but when it was going to partition the
disk
I got the following message: "Failure occurred during the following action:
Setting disk label of disk /dev/hda to msdos"

2) by using a windows boot disks and fixmbr and fixboot. After rewriting
the MBR I tried to install windows xp. The first part of the installation
goes
ok, it can format the hard drive (this it what it says) and copy over a
group
of files. Then, when the installer reboots the computer, there is no memory
at all I what was done and the installation proccess starts from scratch.

Any idea of what is going on?

Thanks,

Carlos.

On 2/25/06, Bruce Markowitz <scosgt@worldnet.att.net > wrote:
>
> It sounds like the improper suspend trashed your partition table. I would
> try to do fdisk /MBR and/or a wipe and then try to re-install
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carlos Fernandez Sopuerta" <carlosfsopuerta@gmail.com >
> To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 7:45 PM
> Subject: [Thinkpad] Problems with my IBM T30
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have an IBM T30 (out of warranty) that does not want to boot the
> operating
> >
> > system (it was linux). Before this happened I opened the laptop (it was
> > in suspend mode) and I press the power button (I thought it was off),
> > then I heard a short noise and the screen was frozen. I switched
> > it off and when I switched it on I got errors from GRUB related with
> > a bad partition table. I ran several programs like fdisk and gpart and
> > I got different information about the partitions in my disks (I think
> > all were wrong). I used PCdoctor for IBM T30 and it was finding two
> > disks!!! such the sum of sizes was equal to the size of the only hard
> drive
> > I have. This software found errors in one the "two disks" but not in
> the
> > other.
> >
> > I thought that the hard disk was wrong but then I did other tests that
> make
> > me suspicious that it could be something else (the controller?)
> > If I try to install an operating system again it fails either at the
> > partitioning stage (linux) or when the computer has to reboot to
> > continue with the installion (windows)
> >
> > In summary: i do not know whether my hard drive is wrong or is something
> > else that is wrong, so I do not know what to do. I would be very
> grateful
> > if
> > someone has any idea of what happens or what could i try to know for
> sure
> > what the problem is.
> >
> > Thanks for listening,
> >
> > Carlos
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Received on Mon Feb 27 17:34:51 2006