Charles Stack on Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:51:58 -0500 (EST)


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RE: [Plug] Re-formatting hard drives


I've encountered this several times.  fdisk /mbr doesn't always fix the
problem.  The only success I've had as a low-level format using the
manufacturer's utilities.



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[mailto:plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net]On Behalf Of Tracy Nelson
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Subject: Re: [Plug] Re-formatting hard drives


"LeRoy D. Cressy" wrote:
> Notes:
>
> Some versions of the DOS fdisk program cannot handle an Ext2 or swap
partition,
> thus will not partition the drive properly to run in DOS mode.  So it is
> important to us the Linux fdisk program to make the drive into a
sembalance of
> something thas MS fdisk can handle.

I ran into this just yesterday.  I had a drive I removed from a Linux
box and installed it in a spare machine.  When I tried to install Win98
(for my brother-in-law) fdisk complained that it couldn't delete an
extended partition that had logical drives in it.  It also told me that
there were no logical drives in the extended partition.  Fortunately, I
had a copy of the manufacturer's (Western Digital) installation disk.
It wiped the partition table clean, and I was able to repartition it
with no problems.
--
Just junk food for thought...

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