Dear, as far as I'm concerned, there is no LiveCD of RH9 available yet.
I'm afraid we have to be satisfied with the normal RH9.
RH9 support has been officially discontinued by red hat inc.
Cheers!

hmmm, dont know what is commercial but as i know, it is open source too but linux dont support it already.

no liveCD!!!!!

anyway, now just wanna get rid of my partition problem then format my linux partition and install Ubuntu. that all wat i wanna do......

but till now still busying in my assignment, dont even have time to go low yat

already bought the partition magic today and installed to my pc. the result, it still detect my disk = 60gb, not 80gb.

The PC BIOS have not translated the h/c/s table to right type for the 80Gb hdd the partition magic to reading the HDD setting from BIOS.

Check the BIOS HDD setting.

How ? i checked the bios setting, non of that is refer to h/c/s table. is that a possibility that my 20gb turn into bad sector and undetectable?? yesterday, the bios detect my current hdd total size is 66gb.

Even BIOS detect your 80GB as a 66GB hdd?
Whoa... dude.. any chance of you using an ancient system?

ancient system? nop, my pc processor is AMD Athlon 64bit 2800+ and my motherboard is GA-K8NS 754 socket with nForce3 250 chipset. that is an ancient system?

my hdd is from maxtor and it is 8mb cache.

If the BIOS auto-detect the HDD size 66GB instead of 80GB then any partition management software recognised 66GB size. Since HDD carry warranty of 1y to 3yr, get a replcement HDD via a warranty claim but that process takes some time (maybe weeks or months depend of vendors/reseller).

Maxtor may have a diagnostic software PowerMAX for HDD avaliable on the website. Read the instruction on running this software (very important).

sure, and thanks, i will try that way after i backup all my data first

the PowerMax works.

i use the PowerMax to run low level full format to get back my 20gb but strange.

what is strange is, after i format my hdd, i using fdisk to make partition, that time still detect my hdd size is 60gb, then i make 50gb for window xp and 10gb for linux, yesterday i finish intall window xp and this morning, i install red hat. when i install red hat, it detected my total hdd is 80gb

then, the 10gb that i reserved for installing red hat become 30gb already

that 20gb suddenly came out of no whr

that really strange. but lucky i got back my 20gb

Thank you for all suggest the solution to me. Thanks a lot.

Cheers.

strange !!!


now that 20gb lost again and i find out that, running ubuntu partition disk inside their installation disc, it detected my total hdd size is 80gb and onli that can format that lost, 20gb of space. what that mean????

fdisk /mbr also not working ??

yeah, fdisk/fixmbr also not working but ubuntu partition tools can