Hi, Troubleshooter.exe in dos have this function that alows to re-initialise a harddisk that can no longer be touched by partition magic and fisk in dos as well as fdisk in linux. If I understand it correctly it zero's out partition table and the whole disk. On a 80Gig drive this takes whole night. For the disk . it is something like throw it away. In the past I was able to re-use such drives and still uses them after this operation. Now all the partition utilities is happy to touch it again. Does such a utility exist in linux. Kindly please may I then have the name. Thanks -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning
Johan Sch wrote:
Troubleshooter.exe in dos have this function that alows to re-initialise a harddisk that can no longer be touched by partition magic and fisk in dos as well as fdisk in linux. If I understand it correctly it zero's out partition table and the whole disk. On a 80Gig drive this takes whole night.
Does such a utility exist in linux.
Try http://www.sysresccd.org/ It's probably a lot better than anything that runs under M$ dos. -- JDL
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 14:58:53 +0100
John Lamb
Johan Sch wrote:
Troubleshooter.exe in dos have this function that alows to re-initialise a harddisk that can no longer be touched by partition magic and fisk in dos as well as fdisk in linux. If I understand it correctly it zero's out partition table and the whole disk. On a 80Gig drive this takes whole night.
Does such a utility exist in linux.
It's probably a lot better than anything that runs under M$ dos. Actually, GNU Parted will allow you to zero out your partition table, and that can be done via YaST or by command line or by QTParted. System Rescue CD has some nice stuff on it though.
The issue that Johan is talking about is a utility to do a low level
format, but that is rarely needed. There is also a bad block utility
that you can run, though normally through fsck(8).
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Jerry Feldman
On Sun, 5 Sep 2004 13:13:42 -0400
Jerry Feldman
On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 14:58:53 +0100 John Lamb
wrote: Johan Sch wrote:
Troubleshooter.exe in dos have this function that alows to re-initialise a harddisk that can no longer be touched by partition magic and fisk in dos as well as fdisk in linux. If I understand it correctly it zero's out partition table and the whole disk. On a 80Gig drive this takes whole night.
Does such a utility exist in linux.
It's probably a lot better than anything that runs under M$ dos. Actually, GNU Parted will allow you to zero out your partition table, and that can be done via YaST or by command line or by QTParted. System Rescue CD has some nice stuff on it though.
The issue that Johan is talking about is a utility to do a low level format, but that is rarely needed. There is also a bad block utility that you can run, though normally through fsck(8).
-- Jerry Feldman
******************* I appreciate the discussion around this issue. By that I am improving my knowledge about linux and other related matters. The view of other linux users. Thankyou -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning
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