Well, I've finally decided to give Linux ago after it left me with a bad taste about 4 years ago. So I have an old 4GB Maxtor HDD that I've decided to do this with. The problem is that when the install gets to what I think is mounting the drives, it totally stalls.
I think that the hard drive's boot sector or something got screwed up a few years back. It wouldn't boot on it's own and had to dual boot with my XP drive. I did however use one of the Longhorn betas and that was able to work on its. However, Longhorn was way too slow, so I got rid of it. Anyway, the point is that I haven't been able to get that drive to boot on it's own since. I think that that is what is causing my problem, that something is wrong with the boot sector. However, I don't know how to confirm this.
If there are any apps that I can use to check or correct this problem I'd appreciate it.
UPDATE: I tried just booting the drive after installing Win 2K and it gives me the error message....Missing NTLDR. Pretty sure that's what it said.
BTW the distro is Red Hat 9. I've also tried with a store bought version of Mandrake 6.5, so I'm pretty sure that it's not my copy.
I think that the hard drive's boot sector or something got screwed up a few years back. It wouldn't boot on it's own and had to dual boot with my XP drive. I did however use one of the Longhorn betas and that was able to work on its. However, Longhorn was way too slow, so I got rid of it. Anyway, the point is that I haven't been able to get that drive to boot on it's own since. I think that that is what is causing my problem, that something is wrong with the boot sector. However, I don't know how to confirm this.
If there are any apps that I can use to check or correct this problem I'd appreciate it.
UPDATE: I tried just booting the drive after installing Win 2K and it gives me the error message....Missing NTLDR. Pretty sure that's what it said.
BTW the distro is Red Hat 9. I've also tried with a store bought version of Mandrake 6.5, so I'm pretty sure that it's not my copy.
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