Re: [SLE] HD problem...

From: Richard Atcheson (ratcheson_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/30/04

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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:19:58 -0500

    On Friday 30 July 2004 10:17 am, James Hatridge wrote:
    > Hi all...
    >
    > I was given a used HD. The guy who gave it to me used a Norton program
    > to write 0 and 1 all over the disk. He did this about 20 times (overkill
    > I know, but it was his disk). Now the disk will not work. When I put it
    > in my system the Bios can read the name and how large it is. But when I
    > try to load Linux on it I get all kinds of errors. One error that jumped
    > out at me was something about not being able to read the partition
    > table.
    >
    > Is there anything I can do to restore this disk? BTW its a Fujitsu
    > MPF3204AH, 20.4GB.
    >
    > Thanks,

    Jim, have you tried booting with a floppy and doing an fdisk /mbr to begin
    with? Then I would look at partimage or any of the other hd utilities to
    see if I could see the partitions and maybe make one or two, then start
    the install. Why? His Norton may have wiped out the mbr as well.

    I would use a dos boot disk with fdisk on it to start with. Of course,
    freedos will do the same thing. If you have it available, a boot cd with
    RIP-10 something will give you a bunch of disk utilities to play with.
    Richard 

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