On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Travis Low wrote:
> Try installing any other OS there. Maybe that will put the partition into a state
>that Linux fdisk understands.
>
> If you have an identical disk, use "dd" and redirect output to the disk.
>
> Do you care about the other partitions on the disk? If no, then delete THEM. Maybe
>that will put the disk into a better state.
>
> Buy a new disk.
Better solution, if you don't care about the other partitions on the disk do
cp /dev/zero <drive device>
this will wipe the drive and is often told to newbies to get rid of them (when
they work out not to do it after the 50th time, they may have learned to read a
manual first too ;-) )
fdisk should ask to create a new partition header after this.
Hope this helps
Beau Kuiper
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> (I know these aren't great suggestions.)
>
> Travis
>
> At 09:10 PM 08/15/1999 +0300, Aryeh M. Weiss wrote:
> >
> >Help! During an install that broke just after partitioning, I managed to
> >create an invulnerable partition.
> >
> >If I try to reinstall (Redhat 6.0), disk druid tell me
> >"error reading partiion table for block device hdb. no such
> > file or directory" . it then insists that I skip that drive.
> >
> >Within DOS or WINDOWS, fdisk reads the partition table, and reports an
> >extended DOS partition with no logical drives defined. If I try to remove
> >that extended partition, it reports that it cannot remove an extended
> >partition with logical drives on it. (This is the same partition which
> >had no logical drives...). FIDSK sees the primary DOS partition without
> >any trouble.
> >
> >If I try to remove it as a non-DOS partition, I am told by fdisk that
> >there are no non-DOS partitions present.
> >
> >FIPS won't touch it because it looks like an extended partition.
> >
> >Can someone out there tell me how to get Linux to access this disk and
> >remove the partition. I had previously put a swap and native linux partition
> >in that area, but Linux wont even access the disk.
> >
> >Thanks in advance, and my apologies if this is a FAQ that I missed.
> >--aryeh
> >Aryeh Weiss | email:
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> >Department of Electronics | URL:
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> >Jerusalem College of Technology | phone: 972-2-6751146
> >POB 16031 | FAX:
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> >Jerusalem, Israel | ham radio: 4X1PB/KA1PB
> >
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