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  • From: "David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] hd problem
  • Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:54:02 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>

> Now fdisk tells me
> "FATAL ERROR: Bad signature on partition table. Press any key to
> exit cfdisk."

Try cfdisk -z to ignore the existing partition table.

> Do I recycle this drive now? Or try a low-level format?

It's already low-level formatted, if dd didn't produce any error
messages. No need to recycle it just yet.

> Theoretical question:
>
> Is there a way to just overwrite the partition table, which Running
> Linux says is in the first 1024 bytes? They explain that
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/tmp/stuff bs=1k count=1
> saves the first 1024 bytes of data to a file.

Yeah, if=/dev/zero and of=/dev/hda should overwrite it if that is true.

David
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