About eight months ago, I picked up a Dell Latitude C400 from thrift shop, planning to put some sort of Linux on it. The laptop booted, but I got the gray screen of death (later diagnosed as a hard drive lock). Replaced the hard drive with one I know works, and tonight, I figured it was time to install it (well, now that I have time and all the other bits, like an external CD/DVD drive and the cable).
As I'm winding my way through the Ubuntu 9.10 installer (hitting all the defaults), I came upon a wee bit of an issue. The drive's 30GB, but the installer recognizes, uh, 1,688TB. Consequently, it came up with I/O errors trying to install the file system.
Specifically: "SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sdb) - 1688.9 TB ATA (and then something I'm guessing is the hard drive's ID)" for the drive, and it wants to do the following: "partition #2 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) as ext4", "partition #3 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) as swap". The locked drive was a Hitachi Travelstar 5400RPM ATA-6 drive, so replacement options are kind of limited. -_-
How can I fix this? It'd be annoying if I had to hunt down ANOTHER hard drive just to use this laptop as expected.
(edited by drjayphd on 24.1.10 2130)
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"Besides, you already had me at "Blood and semen."" (Zeruel)
It could also be that your Recycle Bin hit the limit where it recovers space. Your drive could have been incorrectly listing the free space available, which could have been fixed after a scandisk. Perhaps you cleared the cache in Internet Explorer?