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    FC6 Installation Error [Disk Error 80, AX = 42AB, drive 9F] Help!!!

    Hi everyone

    I downloaded the FC6 dvd iso and the normal (5) iso files (successfully) and tried to install it on my computer (outline of specs: Athlon XP 2000+, 512MB SDRAM, ASUS A7V333 M/B, nVida GeForce 3 Ti200) and I get the following error right at the start of the bootup from the CD/DVD:


    Loading vmlinuz........
    Loading initrd.img......isolinux: Disk error 80, AX = 42AB, drive 9F

    Boot failed: press a key to retry.



    Needless to say, rebooting doesn't help. I get (almost) the same error with the DVD and the CD versions.

    Please help.

    Thanks in advance and cheers.
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    What else is on the drive ? if nothing download dban from sourceforge and wipe the drive
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    Well, I am trying to install FC6 on a Secondary Slave HDD (the others have windoze and data ). But this error comes up right at bootup time....
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    I've zero filled the disk...yet the same error comes up each time I boot from either the CD or the DVD.
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    http://translate.google.com/translat...3DOhs%26sa%3DG is some kind of an explanation! I can't make anything of it though!
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    Help!

    I have tried two different sources of Fedora 6 and both do not work on my computer. I wiped the drive (zero filled it, formatted it) and put just the drive that I want to install Fedora on (removed all other hard disks). Yet I get the same error.

    But the CDs are fine because the installation starts normally on any other machine I take them to.

    PLEASE HELP!
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    search for "isolinux: Disk error 80" on Google, seems to be a common problem, related to bios or cd/dvd drive...

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    What is a "broken bios"?

    Also, the CDs are fine...I have tested them on another machine.
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    I have an Acer TravelMate 2350. I installed a new BIOS upgrade supplied by the manufacturer. (It flashed the BIOS first and installed the new one)

    The error was gone after that.

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    It was a drive related (hardware support) issue. I switched drives and it installed just fine. I'm using Fedora 8 now :-d
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