[ale] repartitioning Linux Hard Drive

[Armsby John-G16665]

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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