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Message from Steven
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> I really don't know how to use mke2fs, but at 
> a random guess of mke2fs /dev/hda1

Yes, that should do it.

> it gives me an error message of
> mke2fs: bad blocks count - /dev/hda1

"bad blocks" is bad news.  It usually
indicates bad hardware.  Are you sure
the HD is OK?  

> I've looked through the manual for mke2fs 
> and I still don't know what to do...

If your HD has a bad section, it may be possible
to use fdisk to adjust your partition start/end 
to avoid the bad section.  

Cheers,
Steven