Installation failed on EEE PC 4G (701)

[ey143]

I have an EEE PC 4G (701 model) and whenever I try to install Ubuntu Netbook version, or Easypeasy or even EEEXUbuntu (or whatever it is called), I get various I/O errors if not error 5.

I'm close to trashing this early adopter netbook as I cannot or dont know how to low level format it. I tried using DBAN 2.2.6 with USB Installer but I also get error msgs when I try to format the drive. Please see the following link I posted on Experts Exchange which shows a screenshot of the problem:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Linux/Distributions/Q_26483710.html

So far I have not been able to get a satisfactory response from anyone over there. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable here can help?

Thanks.

Dan

[snowpine]

Welcome to the forums Dan, a little background information might help diagnose the problem... What operating system was previously installed, and what were you doing with it when the drive stopped working? Have you ruled out a hardware failure of the drive? (SSD's are known to have a limited lifespan.)

I am not personally familiar with this very old EEE model, but I can steer your towards a great resource (if you can't find an answer here):

http://eeeuser.com

They even have an entire sub-forum specific to the 701!