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[m.oreilly]

i decided to give the new ubuntu studio a try. yes, i have a death wish. after finding that my audio was not supported and would need some goofy reworking of the OS, i decided to go back to windows. put the vista dvd in. installed it. or so i thought. after the first boot, the system did not go from the drive. empty screen. this is on a raptor 150, just new. running vista and mandrive for a bit. i next tried xp. it faild after "checking your hardware...". no windows OS would install and boot! but guess what! only linux will install!!! WTF!!!!!!!

i now have a worthless (yes, sorry linus) raptor, my scsi controller is in a truck somewhere, on it's way to an rma, so now i'm running my workstation from an 8 year old pata. talk about "newer isn't always better". this is really weird...

if the sata ports/chipset supporting them went belly up, linux would not be able to install. the sata showed up healthy in bios, and after installing vista to the pata, i formatted the sata from within windows, then removed the pata/vista drive, leaving the sata to be the only hdd in the system. bios saw it as the hdd to boot from. tried the windows installs again. still no luck. i'm stumpt. rma for the raptor too, i guess...

[Nvyseal]

Mo, Have you considered a buying a MAC?

[brewin]

Nvyseal, on Oct 23 2007, 09:29 PM, said:

Mo, Have you considered a buying a MAC?

[m.oreilly]

Nvyseal, on Oct 23 2007, 07:29 PM, said:

Mo, Have you considered a buying a MAC?

:finger:

[chriso_86]

ROFL!!! Need to learn to leave well enough alone. I don't understand the need to install a new operating system every other day.

[m.oreilly]

chriso_86, on Oct 23 2007, 08:36 PM, said:

ROFL!!! Need to learn to leave well enough alone. I don't understand the need to install a new operating system every other day.

dave tells me to do it...

[eniparadoxgma]

My first and only Linux experience (fedora core 3 I believe) ended with Linux taking over my drive Vista-style. I'm sure I don't have as much of the kah-nowledge as you Mo-man, but if Linux will install but Windows won't could Linux have just sent its slimy grub of death into your shiznot? Did you try nuking the drive and starting over? Why am I up this late?

[m.oreilly]

hehe, i'm so used to raid, i dunno what is what i bet if the drive was in an array, and had it's @$$ cleared, it would behave...?

[stormrosson]

hey MO this may sound cheesy but u mite try it, hook up the raptor alone, boot from an old win 98 floppy, run fdisk, and remove any partitions. reboot run fdisk and put a logical dos primary partition, reboot and format from the floppy boot disk. might work homey

[m.oreilly]

thanks strom, but after i posted last night, i got to thinking: maybe i should activate the nvraid, and stick the drive in it as a jbod. sure enough, it fired right up, and is now running tops.

weird, that i'd have to do this, but it shows that the 2200 chipset, which the main sata ports run off of (i believe) is aok (might of got the nvram dirty somewhere, i dunno...). i don't really know why it refused to boot as a stand alone drive, or why the system refused to even allow xp a gander at it's guts. weird, i tell ya

[Roadrunner]

Glad u got your Raptor going again.
The same thing happened to me a couple times and I did what Nuel suggested-- worked great.

I always use an older hard drive to experiment with Linux now- I leave my Raid arrays alone with the main OS.

[m.oreilly]

Roadrunner, on Oct 24 2007, 06:30 PM, said:

Glad u got your Raptor going again.
The same thing happened to me a couple times and I did what Nuel suggested-- worked great.

I always use an older hard drive to experiment with Linux now- I leave my Raid arrays alone with the main OS.

with an array, just deleting it solves issues i've had in the past. seems it's just a stand alone drive that gets the funk. i didn't know about the method strom posted. i'll have to remember that one

[stormrosson]

yeah it's a oldy but a goody that has saved my butt more than once, after u get all the non dos partitions removed and format it to fat32, most any os can recognize it. also formatting from an old 98 boot disk performs a low level format instead of just remapping the drive

[m.oreilly]

stormrosson, on Oct 24 2007, 08:53 PM, said:

yeah it's a oldy but a goody that has saved my butt more than once, after u get all the non dos partitions removed and format it to fat32, most any os can recognize it. also formatting from an old 98 boot disk performs a low level format instead of just remapping the drive

thanks buddy

[stormrosson]

np broheim, u can also put the 98 boot files on a usb stick if you have a new enuff bios that allows booting from usb removable drives, in case some o u youngsters don't have a fdd