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From: maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:29:44 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051019232944.18442.qmail@web31712.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1129740070.6142.61.camel@alain.oneredshoe.net>



--- Scott Tiret <stiret@oneredshoe.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 09:28 -0700, maxim wexler
> wrote:
> > 
> > I wonder if there isn't a tiny part of the drive
> that
> > comes before the first partition, like those first
> few
> > grooves on a vinyl record ;-)
> 
> There is.  You can reset it by using fdisk /mbr
> (from the Microsoft

doesn't work

> Windows boot disk).  Or you can try using cfdisk as
> described below.
> 



		
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-19 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-18 15:42 [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive maxim wexler
2005-10-18 16:52 ` Alexander Skwar
2005-10-18 17:16 ` krzaq
2005-10-19 16:28   ` maxim wexler
2005-10-19 16:41     ` Scott Tiret
2005-10-19 23:29       ` maxim wexler [this message]
2005-10-18 17:43 ` Douglas James Dunn
2005-10-18 20:40   ` maxim wexler
2005-10-18 22:06     ` Glenn Enright
2005-10-19 16:44       ` maxim wexler
2005-10-21 13:42         ` Matthias Bethke
2005-10-18 18:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Francesco Talamona

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