Brent Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have made several unsucessful attempts at setting up an external 30 gig usb > ide hard drive. When using drakconf it is recognized, and I am cautioned; > > I can't read the partition table of device sdc, it's too corrupted for me :( > I can try to go on, erasing over bad partitions (ALL DATA will be lost!). > The other solution is to not allow DrakX to modify the partition table. > (the error is unknown partition table format on disk /dev/sdc. > ) > > Do you agree to loose all the partitions? > > I agree, and am presented with a bar representing /dev/sdc. I click to make > one large partition out of this drive. Define my mount point, hit the format > button and get this error message: > > writing partition table failed > > I have tried smaller partions, and differing file systems, to no avail. > Does anyone have tips on setting up an external usb drive?
does the kernel say something? (dmesg)
