From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ERukz-0003zb-Cp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:56:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9IGr49g012895; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:53:04 GMT Received: from hetzner.email-server.info (new.email-server.info [213.133.109.44]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9IGkqjG005443 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:46:52 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.11] (muedsl-82-207-255-099.citykom.de [82.207.255.99]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hetzner.email-server.info (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A4C274006 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:49:10 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4355284E.7050601@mid.email-server.info> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:52:30 +0200 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050809) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive References: <20051018154227.6767.qmail@web31713.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051018154227.6767.qmail@web31713.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 56de1f07-9239-4b87-9897-92d60513b200 X-Archives-Hash: 2b7eb7702a6321f1e31f5ef5f279dae8 maxim wexler schrieb: > I strongly suspect the problem lies on the first half > of the drive where XP-pro used to reside. Is there a > way to do a low-level format of part of a drive while > leaving the rest intact? Uhm, I'd make a backup of the data and let that tool whatever it wants to do. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list