You can send email, so I'm guessing that you can get on the NET. Go to the
HD manufacturers site, and see if they provide a set-up utility. If not,
check their support page (most have one), and if they provide free email
tech support, tell them all that happened, and they may be able to tell you
how to access the HD's built-in set-up tool, or what steps need to be
taken.Most IDE drives do not need to be formatted (low-level) as did older
MFM drives, but there may be some set-up procedure particular to your HD.
Further more, if you have a SCSI drive, the possibilities are even wider. It
is always safest to check with the people who built the device for repair
procedures when something out of the ordinary has occurred.
Hope they can help,
Ernie
----- Original Message -----
From: Simon Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 3:29 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] L-M screwed up HDD completely?
> OK, the key here is that WIN98's FDISK is actually doing the best job. The
> worrying thing is, WIN98's FDISK is probably the worst of them all! See if
> you can get hold of a copy, evaluation or otherwise, of something like
> Partition magic. It should give you a better clue as to what state the
drive
> is in. As a worst case, I have been in a similar situation when I lost
power
> during a format, I had to use my BIOS's low level format to completely
erase
> the disk, and start again. I have no idea whether that is actually safe or
> not, but it worked! I then just ran Linux again, and Disk druid found the
> disk.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin DeGraaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 7:31 PM
> Subject: [newbie] L-M screwed up HDD completely?
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have two hard disk drives. My primary master is a 14.4 GB that has
> one partition (Win98 and all apps, data, etc.). My primary slave is a
> 2.5 GB with no data on it.
>
> I tried to install Linux-Mandrake, with the intention of putting it on
> the smaller HDD. I messed around with Disk Druid, and I thought I told
> it to create two new partitions (Linux native and Linux swap) on the
> smaller HDD. It messed up, though, and I had to reboot. Now, Disk
> Druid, Linux's fdisk, and Win98's fdisk all say that that drive is not
> accessable. Win98's fdisk is the only util that will actually do
> something with the drive. It appears to let me delete the two
> partitions and create a new one, but when I reboot, I run Win98's fdisk
> again and it still gives me the same warning message and the two non-DOS
> partitions on the drive. It appears totally FUBARed. Any ideas?
>
> Kevin DeGraaf
>
>
>
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