Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <raju.mailingli...@gmail.com> writes:
> 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
That is to be expected for a new disk. IIRC, fdisk (or was that
cfdisk?) has an option to start over with an empty partition table.
Depending on which version of fdisk you have, there are options you can
use to turn off msdos compatibility and to turn on something else --- I
don't remember what these options were, and my version of fdisk doesn't
have them anymore ("fdisk -n" or "fdisk -nc" maybe?), so I forgot about
them.
Anyway, make a new empty partition table and create a partition and see
if you can write that to disk. Always reboot after creating partitions;
I've seen it going wrong when not rebooting and only re-reading
partition tables.
> 2) Is "msdos" a valid option to choose for this hard drive?
Is "msdos" a useful partition type for you? Try "Linux", and if it
works, you can try to change it to msdos.
> 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?
You should be able to partition it while it's connected to an USB port.
However, there are some operations not supported with USB, so if
everything else fails, connecting the disk to an SATA port might help.
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