[ale] hard disk problems continued

[Wandered Inn]

Marc Vogt wrote:
> 
> >What kind of errors?
> 
> It's hard to tell, since they are obscured by the install
> GUI.  This is one of those install scripts.  However,
> what I did find out is that if I install to my other
> partition, which used to have win3.1 on it and fortunately
> had a fairly sizable partition (1 Gig) - everything goes fine.
> I'm guessing that the errors I got installing to the other partition
> would be I/O errors when writing to disk.  This all makes me
> pretty sure that my other partition (2.6 Gigs) is blasted.
> I may be able to live with just 1 Gig and just ignore the old
> partition.  The bad one is towards the end of the disk, while the
> good one is at the beginning, so that should be okay, no?

I would use the 1 gig partition, then format the other with the check
for errors flag set.  See if it returns any problems.

> 
> Marc

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