[Wolves] Debian install gone horribly wrong :(

[Kevanf1]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:17:58 +0100 (CET), scared at geneforensic.mine.nu
<scared at geneforensic.mine.nu> wrote:
> Thanks everybody,
> 
> Now that I think of it, this is not the first time I've had to argue with
> MBR settings recently but that don't make it any easier to believe how it
> happened!!!
> 
> I have now tried everyway to kick-start the MBR and eventually downloaded
> the 1.44MB diagnostic iso from Maxtor.
> 
> I recommend everybody who thinks their 2Gb is acting slow should obtain
> the HD drivers for their PC and glory in running speeds circa 1988 while
> running  all the write tests :)
> 
> Next stop - low level format as it seems the last step untried.....
> Anybody care to stop me before I pull the trigger?
> 
> 
> > On Thursday 10 Mar 2005 19:24, Adam Sweet wrote:
> >
> >> To wipe/restore a Win9x mbr
> >>
> >> boot from Windows boot floppy
> >>
> >> a:\> fdisk /mbr
> >>
> >> To restore a LILO mbr
> >>
> >> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wolves/2004-April/006740.html
> >>
> >> Grub I don't know about.
> >
> > grub-install <device>
> >
> > James
> >
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I have to say that this all sounds horribly familiar.  I had similar
problems when one of my hard drives was starting to pack up and die. 
Before you do anything else can you get your drive manufacturers
diagnostic software?  I'd be inclined to run that using the
non-destructive tests.  They usually have a facility to rebuild the
MBR aswell.  But, it will be rebuilt to as new unformatted I believe
so be careful.

Hope this is of some small help :-)

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Take care.

Kevan Farmer

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