Re: Hard drive problem

[bonnie saunders <bonnie.saunders@sbcglobal.net>]

Paul Cash wrote:

> <snip>  So I tried a 2G old hard drive. I didn't have enough space for 
> knoppix, but I tried a small installation of fedora2. Just x and 
> graphical internet selected. It went through without any problem, but 
> on rebooting, the computer said no OS found. I ran knoppix and there 
> is about 1.84G of data on the disk.<snip>


Sounds to me like your bios isn't set or cannot recognize anything other 
than windows. There were/are old pcs out there that don't play well with 
anything other than windows w/o bios upgrades. Compaq's are some of the 
worst offenders, imho. 

I've put ubunto on my old compaq, but FD3 wouldn't load in graphical 
mode. Eventually, I fdisked the hard drive and went from a low-level 
format and things worked better. Finally gave up and parted out the 
machine. The install really worked better on the new motherboard and 
more memory.

Your original hard drive could also be going bad or be in need of 
reformat due to fragmentation.

Just some ideas.

Bonnie

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