I've always been able to 'fix' dangerously dedicated IDE disks by running
DOS's fdisk with the /mbr switch. That overwrites the MBR, and at least
puts it back into a state friendly with other operating systems...
Ken Bolingbroke
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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> 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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> "Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing,
> Microsoft is different from any other software company..."
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