wigimister

nope. that was a nice 10 minutes of hope though... what else can i try??

I am using an HP Pavillion ze4430us, with AMD-M 2400, 512ram, ati radeon mobility 320m, sharing 128megs of my main ram. I want to install 10c on my new 80gig external hd, running on usb1.1 This is the first time i have attempted to install linux on my laptop. The setup starts fine, and i selected to erase entire harddrive sda and reformat it. the format starts, but when it was formating sda6, about 30 minutes into the install, my laptop just turns itself off. this happened twice, on 2 seperate occassions. has any one else had this problem, or have any suggestions about what i should do? oh yea, my md5sums were fine please help i bought this HD for linux!!!! [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman]

well, the files i need are were stored on the fat32 partition, not the Ext2FS Superblock, is it still possible to recover them through linux? That r-linux utility has been scanning my harddrive for over 24hours now, but is about 85% done, so maby tomorow i will be lucky. Has anyone had any success with any partition recovery software (preferabely for windows) hopefully soon this will all be done(loss or win) so that i can get back to installing mandrake. Thanks for your future replys...

This is my first time attempting to install linux on my HP Pavillion ze4430us, with AMDmobile 2400, 512ram. I finally got an external harddrive to make this possible.The hard drive is an external 80gb fat32 on usb1.1, i havenot bought the 2.0 card yet. The drive contained 17 gigs of media before i started instalation. I downloaded the three isos for Mandrake 10 community, verified the md5s, and instered the first cd. Windows loaded it, and it restarted to begin instalation. I let the installation partition 15gigs of my new hard drive, and everything was working fine untill the progress bar reached 10% or so full. the computer just turned itself off. Now back in xp, my new hard drive is recognized as raw, and it wants me to format it. I downloaded R-linux, some app, and it recognizes the hard drive as Ext2FS SuperBlock, but sais its partition tables are corrupted. Norton Disk Doctor said something about needing a lowlevel format. I am sure there is a way to return my hard drive to its previous Fat32 way, with the data on there, because i know for sure it did not format that section of the hard drive. i unchecked the box, and i would have noticed the time it would have taken. This r-Linux utility is scanning the drive right now, to see if it can recover anything, but it appears to be going so slow that it would take several days to finish, and i have intuition that xp wont be able to handle it for that long. i think the program is working, not locked up, cause my harddrive continues to blink. please help me!!!