Hi again... > On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Jörg, > > Thanks for your help > > > #fdisk -l /dev/sda > > This gives me a truely odd result > --8<------------------------schnipp------------------------->8--- > fdisk -l /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 1 MB, 1474560 bytes > 1 heads, 3 sectors/track, 960 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 3 * 512 = 1536 bytes > > --8<------------------------schnipp------------------------->8--- > /dev/sda1 ? 639983657 1263044256 934590898+ 61 SpeedStor > Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > --8<------------------------schnapp------------------------->8--- and so on....
This is not so bad as it looks at first sight ! I had the same problem with an USB-STick which was something like "preformated" for microsoft. In my case it was the result of "partition magic". There are two "options" now .... if you want to make it easy: #mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda makes it possible to create a new filesystem on the whole device OR: #fdisk /dev/sda and then you start to delete all the partitions and create a new partition table.... BUT... But if there is already data on the disk the easiest way would be to reassemble the disk to a microsoft system, make a backup of the data and then recreate the partition table with fdisk. Jörg
