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Posted: April 19 2006,16:23 QUOTE
Sorry all but i cant seem to get the drive to give me the same errors again. I ditched VMware and went to a strait LiveCD boot. It installed there and found that it put the drive on sdb. Ran an install there and it came out fine.

Now it wont boot from the drive. it was created as a USB-ZIP. When boot it will not find the drive and reports it as read only. ANy clue on how it locks the drive via software as i am guessing this is the problem.

Ill try some things later.

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Posted: April 19 2006,16:56 QUOTE
Sounds like you are almost at the point of getting it. At least your USB pen is not toast. I think you should try to do a USB HDD install and see it it restores your pen to full capacity.

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Posted: April 19 2006,19:33 QUOTE
Yep tried it and it works. So the pen is not dead. I saw that this time  the Geometry of the pen is correct for the USB-ZIP (Cyl, Head, Sect wize) but only the USB-HDD will boot.

is there instructions on how to install manually for a USB-ZIP? In windows or via a copyover? The syslinux part?

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