Sounds perplexing... You could try gparted's create partition table option (in one of the menus).
Beyond that, maybe it's better to give up if its being that much of a pain - it may just be broken. Hamish On 05/04/18 17:46, PeterMerchant via dorset wrote: > 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 > > -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2018-05-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk / CHECK IF YOU'RE REPLYING Reporting bugs well: http://goo.gl/4Xue / TO THE LIST OR THE AUTHOR
