Albert, Thanks for the response.
"dd" for the lazy -- takes 2 seconds to wipe the top of the drive instead of getting rid of numerous partitions that the manufacturer put on the drive. The disk isn't bad -- if it was then I wouldn't have the ability to recover the files via foremost / scalpel. -james On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > 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. > > >
