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Re: [Plug] Re-formatting hard drives
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All,
Never any problem using partition magic accept the cost. Have converted
back and forth numertous times.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Charles Stack <charles@codycomp.com>
To: <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 1:49 PM
Subject: 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.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net
> [mailto:plug-admin@lists.nothinbut.net]On Behalf Of Tracy Nelson
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 1999 12:00 PM
> To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
> 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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