Re: Backup of MBF (was Hard disk problems)

1999-06-30 Thread Dean
I'm not an expert but it was my understanding a low-level format was only done at the factory as it required special equipment, and that a new hard drive was less expensive. Also I thought LILO had a backup utility for the MBR. Dean > > Low-level format is *not* needed any more -- that is, as lo

Re: Backup of MBF (was Hard disk problems)

1999-06-30 Thread Peter Ross
On 30-Jun-1999, [ Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: charles kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I'm trying to avoid repartitioning. I will if nothing else works. > >But I don't know what 'low level format' means. I remember doing that > >for DOS before there was ID

Re: Hard disk problems

1999-06-30 Thread [ Kaa ]
From: charles kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm trying to avoid repartitioning. I will if nothing else works. But I don't know what 'low level format' means. I remember doing that for DOS before there was IDE, but thought it wasn't needed anymore. Thanks for all the information. Chuck Kaufman

Re: Hard disk problems

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
Dear Kaa: Thanks for the suggestions. On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, [ Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com wrote: > Yes, but given that the kernel believes there is FAT12 partition, it seems > that there is something wrong with the partition table or at least the > reading thereof. > > Is the low-level

Re: Hard disk problems

1999-06-29 Thread [ Kaa ]
From: charles kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks for the hint. Of course I don't know whether it's a BIOS disk geometry problem. In fact fdisk says the disk has 1027 cylinders. ^^ But it reports hda1 (dos) is 1 to 64, hda2 (linux) is 65 t