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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

----- 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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