Re: Disk Problem

["Robert Creager" <Robert_Creager@LogicalChaos.org>]

If you throw your linux setup CD and boot from it, select "rescue" 
during the first prompt, not the install prompt (maybe "F1"?), you 
should have a linux rescue boot which probably has dd...

Date sent:      	Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:36:10 -0800 (PST)
From:           	Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>
Subject:        	Re: Disk Problem
To:             	Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net>, tass@listserv.wwa.com

> 
> Tom,
> 
> If you want to completely wipe it clean get a single floppy Linux
> distribution and use "dd" to write zeroes to the disk.  "dd" can write
> to the raw device ignoring conventions like patition tables and fiile
> systems.
> 
> tomsrtbt is a good single floppy Linux.  Make a floppy and boot
> then try this
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
> That should copy zeroes to the hard drive starinf at sector zero. Get
> tomsrtbt here http://www.toms.net/rb/ This floppy make a good PC
> dianostic tool even of WIndows machines, you can boot Linux off the
> floppy and it does not touch your hard drive, well, unless you do the
> "dd" command above.
> 
> When you are done use the Linux "fdisk" to build a new partition
> table.  It will write DOS/Windows partition types if you want it
> to.  Has built-in help so it is easy to use.
> 
> 
> --- Tom Droege <tdroege2@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to fix a disk where the file allocation tables
> > are messed up.
> > 
> > FDISK shows partitions that it will not erase.  I have "Partition
> > Magic" and it says that the file allocation overlaps.  It also says
> > that it fixed the problem, but it did not.  It would be cheaper to
> > throw the disk away than mess with it as long as I have.  But this
> > has come up before, that is why I bought "Partition Magic".
> > 
> > I would be quite content with a simple program that just erased
> > everything and gave me a virgin disk.  Such programs must be
> > available???
> > 
> > Tom (Frustrated trying to get the network all set up) Droege
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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