try to blank the drive clearing all partitions. i had an similar issue a while back On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 10:31 PM, Robin Laing <MeSat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 16/07/17 02:00, Robin Laing wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Trying to help someone install F26 on an older laptop that has just had >> the HDD replaces with an SSD. The SSD was used for a short time on a >> different machine. >> >> A couple of install attempts with the KDE live stick were a big failure >> when formatting the partitions. CPU usage (dual core) went to 100% on both >> cores and then died. >> >> SSD was partitioned but not formatted. >> >> I have no experience with SSD troubles but this seems strange for a little >> used drive to not be able to be formatted. >> >> Could the formatting issues be related to partitions not being on the end >> of the virtual cylinders? >> >> Will test later once we get the drive out of the laptop to see if we can >> partition and format it. >> >> Robin Laing >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > Took drive out of laptop and put in a carrier and found that the partitions > were totally screwed. According to cfdisk, the partitions left over 1E > bytes free. I would love to have an SSD with over an Exabyte of space. > > Repartitioned the drive with cfdisk, created the luks containers and > formatted with no errors. > > Now the issue is, is the problem the old laptop or the installer not > partitioning the drive properly. > > Robin > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
