Should have just partitioned the 250GB to install Ubuntu. No need for a whole other hard drive.
...rammunition wrote:
i have never had a problem with samsung drives, might be something else killing your drives tbhmax wrote:
Samsung Spinpoint F1, died after about a day. All my 7 other F1s work perfectly fine. IMO just a random fluke. I was long overdue for a HDD dieing on me
Lrn2read
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
This is the 3ed HDD that's died on me. First one died after constant use from 96 to 99, second one died in '06 when I accidentally pushed the PC over, crashing the whole thing to the ground. The third one was the F1 a couple of days ago. I think I know how to handle HDDs. This is like the 50th I've installed, not to mention all the remountsrammunition wrote:
i have never had a problem with samsung drives, might be something else killing your drives tbhmax wrote:
Samsung Spinpoint F1, died after about a day. All my 7 other F1s work perfectly fine. IMO just a random fluke. I was long overdue for a HDD dieing on me
once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.
He just points out that he never had a problem with a Samsung drive and that maybe short circuit or unstable wall socket causes his HDDs to die.Freezer7Pro wrote:
...rammunition wrote:
i have never had a problem with samsung drives, might be something else killing your drives tbhmax wrote:
Samsung Spinpoint F1, died after about a day. All my 7 other F1s work perfectly fine. IMO just a random fluke. I was long overdue for a HDD dieing on me
Lrn2read
Bert says Samsung HDDs are no1 so I don't know what the problem is with max's drives.
Last edited by .Sup (2008-11-06 03:45:05)
NOT DRIVES, DRIVE. 1 HDD died. Not a anything that would point towards a short circuit. Sounded like the head crashed or a bearing died. HDDs sometimes fail, it just happens. As I've said, it was probably a random fluke. Maybe the mailman dropped the package ....Sup wrote:
He just points out that he never had a problem with a Samsung drive and that maybe short circuit or unstable wall socket causes his HDDs to die.Freezer7Pro wrote:
...rammunition wrote:
i have never had a problem with samsung drives, might be something else killing your drives tbh
Lrn2read
Bert says Samsung HDDs are no1 so I don't know what the problem is with max's drives.
once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.
No need for caps I see now you meant only 1 drive from Samsung.
ok, i just got the new hard drive and added it as you normally would. I went into vista and it installed some drivers, all good. but i can only see one hard drive in computer(C, but i can find the drive in some properties section
what have i not done???
its a new drive and all i want on it is ubuntu and another Linux distribution
EDIT: pic aint clear so click this link for a better view
http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm10 … ddrive.jpg
what have i not done???
its a new drive and all i want on it is ubuntu and another Linux distribution
EDIT: pic aint clear so click this link for a better view
http://s294.photobucket.com/albums/mm10 … ddrive.jpg
Last edited by rammunition (2008-11-12 02:41:51)
You'll need to format it to access the actual drive from windows. Since you want to install linux, don't do anything in windows. Just format and install from the linux set-up
once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.
so boot from disk format and install on the new drivemax wrote:
You'll need to format it to access the actual drive from windows. Since you want to install linux, don't do anything in windows. Just format and install from the linux set-up
exactly
once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.
last thing, i havn't configured bios for the new drive but it is found in the first tab in bios, and also i think the jumper on the HDD is set to master, does that matter????max wrote:
exactly
Since the BIOS and windows recognize the drive properly, it seems to be configured correctly.
once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.
ok, last and final question, i have formatted the new drive, its found on computer. Now i installed ubuntu on it with a 50GB partition. Now he boot priority in bios is set to hard drive but when i turn on my computer it automatically goes straight into Vista.
I want to be able to choose what OS i want to go in as there should be a black screen with the options.
anyone know how to do this????
I want to be able to choose what OS i want to go in as there should be a black screen with the options.
anyone know how to do this????
set boot priority to the 50GB drive. It should load into grub and let you choose what OS you want to boot. You can change the default values from within linux (just google how to).
If that doesn't work you should try to repair grub from a linux live CD - again google is your friend on how to do that
If that doesn't work you should try to repair grub from a linux live CD - again google is your friend on how to do that
once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.