troubled installations

[K. Mandla]

If I could make one suggestion, I once installed Ubuntu in a dual-boot and
set up each partition beforehand. That tended to confuse me (and the
partitioner), and XP reported the other partitions as faulty.

It's probably too simple a suggestion, but I would try unpartitioning those
"bad" sections, either with a Windows partition tool or with the built-in
installer partition. Maybe it will work. Good luck! :)

On 3/18/06, René <list.account at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > Am 17.03.2006, 13:01 Uhr, schrieb Avraham Hanadari
> > <hanadari at zahav.net.il>:
>
> > I have tried to install Ubuntu or Kubuntu twice. Unfortunately both
> > times there was such a catastrophic result that I had to reformat my
> > hard disk. I do not want this to happen again, so I am imploring you to
> > help me. I really do want to get started learning the system.
> >
> > Here's what happened both times. The installation of 5.1 in a dual boot
> > with my XP Home went without a hitch. Or so I thought. I was able to
> > work within both Ubuntu or Windows after choosing at boot-up.
> >
> > I have my hard disk partitioned in C: NTFS for XP, and two other data
> > partitions. (By the way, I never did succeed in mounting the data
> > partitions for access from Ubuntu!) When I viewed the partitions later
> > using Partition Magic 8 in Windows, instead of the partitions I expected
> > to see plus the Linux ones, all I saw was a long "mask" covering the
> > entire HD and labeled BAD.
> >
> > Since both OS's worked, in spite of the "BAD" label, I was able to save
> > everything before the reformatting, but I would prefer a clean
> > partitioning, as I have been able to achieve with Fedora and Suse. With
> > the mask in place, I cannot resize the partitions or otherwise work with
> > the disk. I suspect this has something to do with not being able to see
> > the data partitions and mount them in Ubuntu.
>
> hello Avraham
> for what ever reason, to me it sounds like a 'mixed salad' on the
> harddisk, or even some hardware failure.
> as i do not know much about how to 'check and repair' failures on a
> harddisk (except to use tools you have in Windows itself), i would start
> once again in the following way:
> 0. save your data (you told, you have done that successfully)
> 1. use 'dban' (search it on the internet) to format your harddisk on a
> much deeper level
> if the outgoing is fully successful:
> 2. install once again Windows (it has to be installed before Ubuntu).
> 3. use software tools in Windows (maybe you also find some free software
> on the internet) to check your harddisk as thouroughly as possible
> 4. do not make any partition for the upcoming Ubuntu installation (Ubuntu
> will do it itself during the installation)
> 5. install Ubuntu
> that does not sound simple, thats what i would do, but i guess in this way
> it can come to work.
> regards,
> René
> 5
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