[wplug] Re: Fatal Error During Installation! Any Ideas?

[Eric Hsiung]

For hard drives, I usually go to the manufacturer's web site and
download their low-level diagnostics package. I've used such
utilities from Western Digital, Seagate and Quantum; other disk
manufacturers probably have them as well. Since they are
vendor-specific, these utilities sometimes perform additional test
and inform you if your drive has been subject to a recall. For
example, the Western Digital 31600 drives from a few years
ago that were replaced for free.

If you are willing to spend a few bucks, Spin-Rite from Gibson
Research (www.grc.com) has served me well (though to be honest
I haven't used it in a couple of years).


Eric

----- Original Message -----
From: "Reany, Burt" <breany at trigon.com>
To: <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 1:30 PM
Subject: [wplug] Re: Fatal Error During Installation! Any Ideas?


> Group;
>
>     I followed this thread, and came to a question  Not being current on
> hardware diagnostics software, i'd appreciate hearing which packages the
> members of the group use - especially where burning-in or exercising a
> system to find "intermittent" problems.
>
>  Thanx;
>  Burt R
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: J Aaron Farr [SMTP:jaaron_farr at hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:45 PM
> > To: wplug at wplug.org
> > Subject: [wplug] Re: Fatal Error During Installation! Any Ideas?
> >
> > Thanks for everyone's suggestions.
> >
> > The installation is taking place on a single drive that is partitioned
for
> >
> > both Windows and Linux.
> >
> > I think it's become obvious that it's a hardware problem.  Usually the
> > installation fails when the installer tries to actually write to the
disk.
> >
> > That made me think it was the hard drive, but the error message makes me
> > think it's the RAM.  I don't know both my be bad.  I'm going to try to
run
> >
> > some diagnostics on it.  I can at least get a DOS prompt to access my
> > windows files and I can transfer the critical ones to floppy that way.
> >
> > If anyone else has any suggestions to pinpoint what the probable cause
is,
> >
> > let me know.  Thanks again.
> >
> > jaaron
> >
> >
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