On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Jim Shankland wrote:
:By the way, I also struck out with DOS fdisk: it took one look
:at the garbage partition table, and wedged. I'll be trying a
:Linux rescue disk next. If that fails, too, then I seem to
:have generated a 1-Gigabyte hockey puck (you didn't think I
:was trying this with a new disk, did you)?
If it were SCSI I'd say plug it in to the nearest adaptec controller and
low level it (I fixed a drive one of my SGI's ate like this), but it's
IDE. You might want to give NT or OS/2 a whack at it if you've got them
laying around. There are programs to let you low level IDE drives out
there, I believe they're mostly DOS based though, so that probably doesn't
help.
Jamie Bowden
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