pmpatrick Posted March 19, 2003 Report Share Posted March 19, 2003 When you try to boot from a bootable cd what do you get? Flashing cursor, error message, frozen grub screen, ect? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted March 19, 2003 Report Share Posted March 19, 2003 Could be a bad cable? Just a guess. Try to keep cdroms and hard drives on different cables. If you can, it just makes it easier. If all of your efforts have failed and you have nothing on the hard drive to save I would install it as a slave in a second comp and run a total check on it. Maybe even twice. An older hard drive (3 years +)can go flaky for any reason at any time. I would then totaly wipe it. Getting rid of everything. Leave it entirely unpartitoned and unformatted. Then try installing again. If all this fails you might have to start doing some of the really old stand by guru stuff. Don't worry though, it doesn't involve sacraficing small animals, but you'll need a few candles and a funny hat. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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