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[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:56:32AM +0100, Ian Spray wrote:
> I can't be sure this is the problem, but sometimes a drive that has been
> formatted for DOS gets disk label problems.  Try going into format, then
> analyze, and then purge.  You can run it over the whole drive, but you do
> need to destroy the contents of the first few and last few cylinders (the
> existing label, and the backup label (if any)).

Of, there's always this:

1.  boot off cdrom to single-user mode
2.  dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hd<x>
3.  let run for about 20 seconds

bingo, fresh/wiped MBR. 8-)  I've used this (with RedHat on a PC) to
take care of quirky / pesky HD repartitioning problems.

Bill

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