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
--- 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 partition or the other
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
--- 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 to begin with?
--- 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 by using fdisk
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
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.
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 strongly
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:
--- 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 would
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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