Ok well I knew it wasn't a full installation and so I just deleted those files and than tried it the way you said, like in the tutorial. Unfortunately at 76% my hard drive overheated and died... I got the following error: Errno 30 /target/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic Underneath it said this is often caused by old hard drives, which it works in good condition. And that it could also be caused by overheating... Seeing as it is only a metal casing to cool it and spread out the heat, I say it overheated as it was going find until 76%... Now my external hard drive won't show up in Windows XP.... It appears to be fried... The power light is on, and I hear it rotating.... ***! Happened my hard drive is fried... I have icepacks around it now... Well I've been able to cool it down and now see it in my disk management, it still won't show up on the desktop though... There are two partitions on it now, the attached image shows it: Should I just delete both partitions and start again? I don't know why it partitioned it, I selected guided - use entire disk Oh and a funny thing is, when I look at the free space it is 100%, there is nothing on it... It was installing though, I could hear it and see the light flashing on the case.
Last edited by MTGap; November 6th, 2008 at 11:14 PM.
Boot your Live CD and from the Terminal; post: sudo fdisk -lu
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Why what does that do? There is currently nothing on the external hard drive. It is completely blank on both partitions...
For the partition where to install bootloader, boot choice (sda and sda1) should work. Personnaly I prefer sda1. The bootloader will be "unbreakable", easier to find if you made something wrong. I also had sometime problems during installation with harddrives. Especially when in installed 2 or 3 times. What I have done is wait at the next day and installation went well. You have two partition because linux use one of them for a RAM extension called SWAP. It is the littler one. All that is normal. At this state I suggest you to delete the two linux partitions (ext and swap), wait some hours computer off, then when it's cold boot and install. Probably it can help when you move it in a cold place or cool it down. For the fdisk -l or fdisk -lu command, it shows how the drives are arranged, space from the partitions, type, letter. It contains the same information than your picture from the drives with some more infos. Here an example : Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 19457 156288321 7 HPFS/NTFS Probably you will have to add sudo before the command.
Okay well, I've booted from the External hard drive! After surrounding it with ice packs I was able to cool it down enough for it to properly install without overheating. I'm so happy that it is a full install... Now there are a lot of updates: 39.6 MB If I hit install will it install onto my external hard drive? Or will it accidently go to one of my other hard drives. There are 3 hard drives in total currently connected.
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