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From: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:40:54 -0500
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Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop
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On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
>
>> Adam, I think you may have missed a lot from the earlier messages in
>> this thread.  Admittedly it's long and likely tedious, but trying to
>> help somebody get the OS installed is about as basic as it gets for me;
>> I'd be hugely relieved if someone with more / better clues took it on.
>>
>
> Actually, I've been following every post since the thread's inception.
> Despite your listing of generally good advice, the most obvious cause theis
> error msg(of an admitted newbie) was not explicitly ruled out.  I'm simply
> saying you should start there.
>

...


>
>
>> Chris has this issue with one disk only, so I'm not sure what you mean?
>>
>
> Earlier in the thread, the OP stated he tried to install on a Micro SD card
> and got the exact same result.
>
>
Ney, I was having general issues w/ my card-reader and slow write speeds,
that has been solved.