On Thursday 16 Mar 2006 12:01, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:50:10 +0000 Paul Stear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > My problem now is that when I plug the disk in (it's am external USB > > disk) I get 2 icons on my kde desktop both saying 200G Media one > > is /dev/sda and the other /dev/sda1 but of course I only have 1 200G > > disk. > > Probably there are still the filesystem magic bytes written in the boot > sector (first 512 bytes). I think overwriting them should do the trick, > but I'd like a second opinion on this, before I advice you to do > "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1" (but if there isn't any > data on that drive, then go and try this...) > > -hwh Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion but it didn't make any difference. This is a print the raw data in the partition table Device: /dev/sda 0x000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA
This is the same type of disk's print the raw data in the partition table Device: /dev/sda 0x000: 33 C0 8E D0 BC 00 7C FB 50 07 50 1F FC BE 1B 7C 0x010: BF 1B 06 50 57 B9 E5 01 F3 A4 CB BE BE 07 B1 04 0x020: 38 2C 7C 09 75 15 83 C6 10 E2 F5 CD 18 8B 14 8B 0x030: EE 83 C6 10 49 74 16 38 2C 74 F6 BE 10 07 4E AC 0x040: 3C 00 74 FA BB 07 00 B4 0E CD 10 EB F2 89 46 25 0x050: 96 8A 46 04 B4 06 3C 0E 74 11 B4 0B 3C 0C 74 05 0x060: 3A C4 75 2B 40 C6 46 25 06 75 24 BB AA 55 50 B4 0x070: 41 CD 13 58 72 16 81 FB 55 AA 75 10 F6 C1 01 74 0x080: 0B 8A E0 88 56 24 C7 06 A1 06 EB 1E 88 66 04 BF 0x090: 0A 00 B8 01 02 8B DC 33 C9 83 FF 05 7F 03 8B 4E 0x0A0: 25 03 4E 02 CD 13 72 29 BE 46 07 81 3E FE 7D 55 0x0B0: AA 74 5A 83 EF 05 7F DA 85 F6 75 83 BE 27 07 EB 0x0C0: 8A 98 91 52 99 03 46 08 13 56 0A E8 12 00 5A EB 0x0D0: D5 4F 74 E4 33 C0 CD 13 EB B8 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x0E0: 56 33 F6 56 56 52 50 06 53 51 BE 10 00 56 8B F4 0x0F0: 50 52 B8 00 42 8A 56 24 CD 13 5A 58 8D 64 10 72 0x100: 0A 40 75 01 42 80 C7 02 E2 F7 F8 5E C3 EB 74 49 0x110: 6E 76 61 6C 69 64 20 70 61 72 74 69 74 69 6F 6E 0x120: 20 74 61 62 6C 65 00 45 72 72 6F 72 20 6C 6F 61 0x130: 64 69 6E 67 20 6F 70 65 72 61 74 69 6E 67 20 73 0x140: 79 73 74 65 6D 00 4D 69 73 73 69 6E 67 20 6F 70 0x150: 65 72 61 74 69 6E 67 20 73 79 73 74 65 6D 00 00 0x160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x180: 00 00 00 8B FC 1E 57 8B F5 CB 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 58 BB 35 CD 00 00 00 01 0x1C0: 01 00 07 3F E0 FF 20 00 00 00 E0 E7 49 17 00 00 0x1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
