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Formatting 200 g disk

Asked by ankhaton

Seems the easiest thing
I have a disk 200G rather new with some
bad tracks or something

It is accepted by Windows
but while formatting for ubuntu HARDY install
UBUNTU SAIS : FAILS

nOW THERE MUST BE A WAY THAT UBUNTU EXCLUDES BAD ZONES
AND KEEPS THEM EXCLUDED DURING THE WHOLE PROCESS

Who know it ?

I'm new to Linux so if there are commands to do
please type them entirely
Thanks a Lot

Pity to throw the disk away isn't it.

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#1

That's all it says is FAILS ? there isn't anymore information ?

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ankhaton (ankhaton) said : 		#2

It's ending the partitioning process
while installing UBUNTU HARDY 8.04
I have done it already on several HDs & works fine
Takes normally 2 hours extra to upgrade
but that's fine

It 's not capable to end the checking I guess
Might be good for the garbade that hardisk

I bought 40 HDs on EBAY mixed 1.5 Tera 650G and 200 G
Half of them was bad - came from Italy
But seen the price it's very OK
Two of them 100% full of MP3s - But I like only FLVs
But this one was empty and Windows was formatting it

Perhaps better stay at XP with that one

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#3

Hi :)

Do you have an Ubuntu Cd that you can use as a bootable Cd?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

If so then go up to the top taskbar and click on

System - Administration - "Partition Editor"

and this should open up GPartEd which should help you partition & format the drives.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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