can Mandrake damage a hdd?

esteeven · 11-15-2004, 04:07 PM

I replaced Debian on my laptop with Mandrake 10. I retained the same /home. Once Mandrake was in place, I realised that I didn't like it on my laptop so I decided to put Debian back. So I started with the Sarge installer but there's a problem. I am told that there was not a clean unmount and I should use e2fsck --- but surely that can't be so? I tried deleting the original / patrtition and was able to do so but the same problem occurs. Is this something about the way mandrake installs??

Tinkster · 11-15-2004, 04:13 PM

I'm not certain about this, but could MDK have converted
the file-system on home to ext3?

Cheers,
Tink

esteeven · 11-15-2004, 04:19 PM

well----I am pretty sure that it was already ext3---- that's what i normally select during my debian installs. Could it have done something else?

esteeven · 11-15-2004, 04:49 PM

I am so irritated with myself. It wasn't broken but I just couldn't resist fiddling! Now it's broken.

I can't even format the whole disk ---- same error --- "modifying an unclean filesystem could cause severe corruption" ----- great!!!

esteeven · 11-15-2004, 05:54 PM

Hmmm! Irritation got the better of me ---- I used this horrible old cdrom with something called Windows 98 on it to format the HDD. Never thought I'd use that cd again

I've just recreated my partitions without problems --- so Debian is on its way back again.

What a pointless adventure. I should have just gone to bed early