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Posted: Nov. 08 2006,14:27 QUOTE
you think u could walk me thru the process of paritioning with DSL right now? i am currently running it. when i typed cfdisk on Aterminal i get a fatal error, disc cant be opened :(
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Posted: Nov. 08 2006,14:49 QUOTE
Try: cfdisk /dev/hda
Where /dev/hda is your disk (primary master). If you still get the error message your disk may be dead. You could try this to check that: badblocks -svw /dev/hda
Note that the 'w' option will overwrite the entire disk. If that command also gives a similar error then your disk probably is dead. On the other hand, I once "fixed" a dead CD-burner by taking out the cables (both ends) and reseating them a few times. As a last resort you may try that.
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Posted: Nov. 08 2006,14:51 QUOTE
cfdisk will look at /dev/hda by default.

If indeed he has a drive at hda, you just probably need root permissions, so you could run "sudo cfdisk"
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Posted: Nov. 08 2006,20:01 QUOTE
i tried sudo cfdisk and i got a fatal error, somthing like disk cannot be read. Am i screwed at this point or do i still hav a chance?

like right now im running from the DSL cd every time and everything gets saved into ram, well in other words nothing gets saved
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Posted: Nov. 08 2006,21:30 QUOTE
Did you try skaos' suggestions? It may work.  Another thing is to totally wipe your whole hdd using dd i guess... but it's probably better to try that badblocks thing first.
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