On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 04:57 +0000, James wrote: [...] > try www.namesys.com/support.html, and for > $25 the author of fsck, or a colleague if he is out, will step you > through it all.
Did you try that? ;) It's probably a bad disk and you need to take it back... Not sure why you had to dd/urandom to clear the partition table. Just simple running fdisk and saving will re-write over what previously existed in the partition table.
