I am trying to parition a new "Western Digital WD Scorpio Black 750 GB SATA 3 GB/s 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache Internal Bulk/OEM 2.5-Inch Mobile Hard Drive" but with no success.
$sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 750.2 GB, 750156372992 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149166 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table When I tried gparted, it gives the following error $sudo gparted /dev/sdb ====================== libparted : 2.3 ====================== /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label In particular, I tried gparted -> Device -> Create Parition Table -> I chose "msdos" as the new partition table type -> Apply After a minute or so, it prints /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label on the command line. 1) What am I doing wrong? 2) Is "msdos" a valid option to choose for this hard drive? 3) Here I connected the hard drive via a USB connection. Could that be a problem? Should I connect the drive directly via SATA cable in order to partition? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k38tdf$ibf$1...@ger.gmane.org
