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Hardware / Dirty HD Problem

« on: June 21, 2005, 01:45:20 PM »

I have a generic 8GB Samsung IDE HD that I have been running Win2k on. I wanted to use it for a new Linux installation so I used FDisk to blow away the old partitions and created a single partiiton using the entire drive.

I installed Linux which went smoothly until I tried to boot up.
When I try and boot Linux from the HD, I get a windows start menu!

I ran FDISK again and blew the partiion away, then formatted the disk in DOS. I then ran Linux, used QPartEd to again blow way the old partition and create a new one, I formatted the new partion in Linux, then
reinstalled Linux. I still get the Windows start menu when I boot!

FYI: Windows will not load if I select it from the bogus menu, It errors out looking for the Windows boot files. Is there some deeper cleaning of the HD I can do?

Any help or wisdom would be much appreciated!
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Tech Clinic / Dirty HD problem

« on: June 20, 2005, 10:09:02 AM »

I have a generic 8GB Samsung IDE HD  that I have been running Win2k on. I wanted to use it for a new Linux istallation so I used FDisk to blow away the old partitions and created a single partiiton using the entire drive. I installed Linux (Mepis v3.3.1) which went smoothly until I tried to boot up.

When I try and boot Linux from the HD, I get a windows start menu! I ran FDISK again and blew the partiion away, then formatted the disk in DOS. I then ran Linux, used QPartEd to again blow way the old partition and create a new one, I formatted the new partion in Linux, then reinstalled Linux. I still get the Windows start menu when I boot!

FYI: Windows will not load if I select it from the bogus menu, It errors out looking for the Windows boot files. Is there some deeper cleaning of the HD I can do?

Any help or wisdom would be much appreciated!

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