I was given an old Dell with a 250GB MAxtor SATA disk that couldn't be
found by the live disks that I tried. Eventually I loaded up a rescue
disk and gparted and discovered that the disk had an invalid partition.
I was unable to format it as Ext2, 3 or 4, But I did format it as 2
FAT32 partitions and then it was recognised in my other computer. I have
tried again to get it to format as Ext-x with no luck. It now does have
a swap partition. It didn't like having the jumper in for the CLJ
(cylinder Limitation jumper)
Any thoughts on how I can possibly resurrect this disk, or should I not
waste my time?
Thanks,
Peter
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