Hi, What you did sounds muddled to me.
I have a whole network of PCs that were all partitioned from within FreeDOS BETA and associated FDISK program. Obviously I check things like BIOS aupport, controller type, UDMA spec, LBA and cylinder boundaries before doing anything to any kind of hard drive. You appear to be saying you ran it under WinME's version of DOS? In theory, FreeDOS is compatible with MS-DOS, but I'd never risk actually running FDISK like that. The rest of your environment is unclear (UMBs etc) The concept of ubuntu being able to "recover" the disk sounds odd too? If it wasn't formatted, there could not have been much to recover? You can zap partitions and MBR at any time with FreeDOS FDISK. I can't imagine what you were trying to achieve or why you decided to use Windows ME's startup disk? The links to the newsgroup posts are not working for me, not sure why? If you still have a blank hard drive and want to do more tests I'd suggest you boot into FreeDOS, use the /CLEARALL option to clear everything from the drive then try again. You'll find FreeDOS FDISK is the best FDISK ever released and has the most powerful command line. (be sure to test EMM386 very carefully if you use it, as this can lead to all kinds of crazy results, although recent versions may be OK, I don't know as I don't use it) Stegozor wrote: > Hi, > > A few days ago, I created a boot diskette created under Windows > Millenium (virus free according to ClamWin), and replaced FDISK by > FreeFDISK on that diskette. After that, I created several partitions > using FreeDISK, but was unable to format some partitions on the disk > using neither FORMAT, nor the install process of the Windows Me CD. > Finally, I recovered the hard disk thanks to Ubuntu 6.06 CD that > partitioned and installed like a charm. > > While I was suffering, I posted a message on news:alt.comp.hardware to > know whether my disk was dying. Some contibutors suggested that the > partitionning could be screwed, and one clearly stated that the > problem might have been caused by FreeFDISK and that he had seen > similar problems on 3 computers before. ( > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ). > > So, I thought that reporting my experience here could be useful. Let's > hope that this is a "false positive". > You may find more information on the USENET thread: See > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and the > replies. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
