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