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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:04:01 -0700

On Fri July 30 2004 8:17 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.

Just a guess. Using Yast try formatting it as a fat filesystem and then with a
Linux filesystem. It work once for me, but I may have been lucky, I did it on
a Western Digital hard drive. Rich

> Thanks,
>
> JIM
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