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Originally Posted by Jebediah
Congrats! You're making me proud by casting off the MS shackles.
In my years I've found most stubborn Linux problems are actually hardware problems. Either the hardware doesn't have a driver or something is physically wrong.
It may be possible to use that old drive, but I wouldn't trust it. There is a way to format a drive while flagging the bad blocks, but usually more bad blocks come about. I think windows can do that too, but not positive.
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When the Windows tools gave up on it, so did I. I'm still a bit unsure about Linux, but there were a lot of good tools on that Ultimate Boot CD and most of them declared the drive to be toast.
It sort of sucked to lose 8GB of storage, though.
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