----- Original Message -----
<SNIP>
> hours at least usually. I had one maxtor drive that I tried to convert
back
> to fat after running ext2 filesystem and it just wouldn't properly run
> format, fdisk until after I did the low level....that was a couple of
years
> ago and the drive is still in service and nevered erred since.
>
> Best of luck
> Tazmun
Tazmun, I recently had the same problem. Dos kept reporting bad sectors
and eventually said it couldn't read from the disk. Just thought others
might be interested to know that a boot/partition manager that I was using
at the time (BootIt Next Generation), easily recognised the ext2 filesystem
and just as easily converted it to FAT32. I *was* about to do a low-level
format <g>.
Also, some might be interested to know that BootIt NG can copy entire
partitions/drives to CD-RW (or other partition/drive) as an image file which
can be restored any time. Although I must say, that I haven't tried it with
Linux YET (it works with Win98). It handled resizing ext2 and swap
partitions without any problems and supports Reiser.
Just some useless information (as if you don't have enough email to read)
:-)
Cheers
skinky
_________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
