Mark Phillips wrote: > > I've just tried to hook up my new IBM drive, and when I try to use cfdisk > on it I get: > > FATAL ERROR: Bad signature on partition table > Press any key to exit cfdisk > > And on fdisk I get: > > Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF > disklabel > Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, > until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous > content won't be recoverable. > > I tried writing this "new DOS disklabel" to disk but this didn't fix > things. > > Any ideas?
I had the same problem with Segate Baracuda, you should write empty partition table in fdisk, after if cfdisk will be ready to work (this is rather software problem) -- >> Serafin << \|/ Registered linux user #143543 my e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o o) ------------------------------ooO--(_)--Ooo---------------------------------
