Hi maxim,
on Wednesday, 2005-10-19 at 09:44:58, you wrote:
> it started a little flakey but soon progressed to all
> out dandruff!
Lowlevelling seems the way to go indeed, if there's anything that can be
done. Just back up the drive with
dd if=/dev/hdX conv=noerror bs=4096 | gzip > /some/where/bak
--- Scott Tiret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 09:28 -0700, maxim wexler
> wrote:
> >
> > I wonder if there isn't a tiny part of the drive
> that
> > comes before the first partition, like those first
> few
> > grooves on a vinyl record ;-)
>
> There is. You can reset it b
--- Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:40, maxim wexler wrote:
> >
> > I used fdisk and mkdosfs to format the first half
> > fat32 but it makes no difference.
> >
>
> Did your problems start when you tried to remove
> windows? Or was the disk just
> plain flakey
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 09:28 -0700, maxim wexler wrote:
>
> I wonder if there isn't a tiny part of the drive that
> comes before the first partition, like those first few
> grooves on a vinyl record ;-)
There is. You can reset it by using fdisk /mbr (from the Microsoft
Windows boot disk). Or you
--- krzaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/18/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Hello everbody,
> >
> > Maxtor suggests I do a low-level format of my
> flaky
> > Diamond 16 drive using their Powermax tool.
> > Unfortunately it doesn't give you the option of
> > sparing one part
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:40, maxim wexler wrote:
>
> I used fdisk and mkdosfs to format the first half
> fat32 but it makes no difference.
>
Did your problems start when you tried to remove windows? Or was the disk just
plain flakey to begin with?
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--- Douglas James Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> um a low level format is always the entire drive.
> It basically returns
> the drive to factory default. AKA all 0's. A high
> level format would
> be what your talking about which would be the same
> as reformatting a
> partition. as fdisk
um a low level format is always the entire drive. It basically returns
the drive to factory default. AKA all 0's. A high level format would
be what your talking about which would be the same as reformatting a
partition. as fdisk would do.
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 08:42 -0700, maxim wexler wrote:
>
On 10/18/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everbody,
>
> Maxtor suggests I do a low-level format of my flaky
> Diamond 16 drive using their Powermax tool.
> Unfortunately it doesn't give you the option of
> sparing one partition or the other -- it does the
> whole thing.
>
> I str
maxim wexler schrieb:
> I strongly suspect the problem lies on the first half
> of the drive where XP-pro used to reside. Is there a
> way to do a low-level format of part of a drive while
> leaving the rest intact?
Uhm, I'd make a backup of the data and let that tool
whatever it wants to do.
Al
Hello everbody,
Maxtor suggests I do a low-level format of my flaky
Diamond 16 drive using their Powermax tool.
Unfortunately it doesn't give you the option of
sparing one partition or the other -- it does the
whole thing.
I strongly suspect the problem lies on the first half
of the drive where X
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