Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

On 20150311_0406+0000, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:00:13 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> 
> > On 20150310_1410+0000, Dan Purgert wrote:
> >> On Mon, 09 Mar 2015 22:07:17 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> >> 
> >> [ ... snip ... ]
> > suggestion of running CHKDSK wasn't tried in the manner that I'm sure
> > was intended because by the time I got it, I knew that it didn't boot
> > Windows off the hard disk anymore. 
> 
> Try chkdsk off the boot CD then (assuming you have a Win boot disk.  NTFS 
> tends to do awful things to drives wherein they get weird "locks" in 
> them.  Or just use the windows disk to quick format the drive ... and 
> stop it there.
> 
> Alternatively, see if there's a low-level format utility (from the drive 
> manufacturer) that you can run on its own.  I used to have one from 
> Western Digital that worked nicely for writing all zeroes to the drive.
> 

I have two windows recovery CDs. One from the distant past, and the
one that came with this machine. It will take a while.  Something to
keep track of today...

Thanks,

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Paul E Condon           
pecondon@mesanetworks.net