[ale] repartitioning Linux Hard Drive

[Jeff Hubbs]

John - 

I can't remember the exact story but I think there is an additional step you
need to do.  I think it's documented in the man page for Linux' fdisk.  It
involves using dd to write zeroes to the first 512 bytes of the partition to
allow for some funky stuff the MS software does.

- Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Armsby John-G16665 [mailto:John.Armsby at motorola.com]
> 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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