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On Jun 03, 2007, amsbradley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx was like: > I think my hard disc is heading for oblivion: Each time I try to install a > Linux distro on it (this occurs with all the distros I've tried), the end > result is a non functioning system I had something similar with my second-best laptop. e2fsck said there was nothing wrong but I couldn'r install anything. I ran badblocks and found that most of the disk was broken but there was a usable bit that I was able to partition. But everyone said 'oh, buy another disk'. Tony Sumner -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html