Now it's working..............I still stand by my hardware failure scenario........."I think this HDD just died, but it worked with linux." Not only that but I'm betting I could act out that scenario on an old HDD. If you can prove it to be flawed that's great!

I didn't see any error messages it just went on idle. This is an authentic OEM CD..... it works just great without an Internet connection during install......except on that HP HDD. It worked fine on others before this HDD and as I confirmed for myself last night, it works fine on a different HDD during install without an Internet**middleman**. I just thought I'd throw it out here to hear the opinions of our professionals on this board.


thanks, nihil,foxy