[ale] repartitioning Linux Hard Drive

[Christopher Bergeron]

John, I believe you need to try:

FDISK /MBR to fix the MBR from DOS.  Hope this helps...!

Note that you will lose your linux mbr, but I believe that is what you're
trying to do here...




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of Armsby
To: ale at ale.org
John-G16665
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 11:32 AM
To: 'ale at ale.org'
Subject: [ale] repartitioning Linux Hard Drive


The company IT help desk has a problem.

A 6 gig Seagate hard drive was a faithful Linux disk for some time.  IT
wants to now return it to NT service.
They basically ran a FDISK /MBR and now can only see a 20 meg hard drive
with FDISK.
FIPS sees the disk but blows up with error messages about the MBR.  It sees
the rest of the disk as hidden sectors.
Since it blows up, FIPS can not help.

I could have sworn years ago FDISK had a low level format utility that might
enable a low format, repartition, and then a regular format...

The help desk's only alternative is to try to find a Seagate utility disk
and hope the disk can be made usable.

This is not my area of expertise....

Any suggestions??



John


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