May be your motherboard or BIOS just too old, and it doesn't support such hard disks?
пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:36 Robin Atwood <ro...@binro.org>: > On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:31:39 +0500 > Vladimir Romanov <bluebo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Well, dd should work well in any case. May be your drive is broken > > really? > > > > пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:30 Robin Atwood <ro...@binro.org>: > > > > > On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 19:14:35 +0500 > > > Vladimir Romanov <bluebo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Fdisk can not work with drives larger than 2TB. Your drive may be > > > > slightly (10 mb) larger than that, so the result. For such disks > > > > you need not Fdisk, but GPT programs. > > > > > > > > пт, 5 июл. 2019 г., 19:12 Robin Atwood <ro...@binro.org>: > > > > > > > > > I just bought a new "2TB" Western Digital hard drive. Imagine my > > > > > surprise when fdisk reports it is only 10MiB in capacity! Is > > > > > there anything I can do to rectify this (of a technical > > > > > nature)? I live in Bangkok so it is not unlikely the guy in the > > > > > little shop where I bought it sold me a load of junk. But the > > > > > device is in warranty until 2022 and looks convincing (I > > > > > checked the serial number on the WD web site). Of course I can > > > > > go to the WD service centre and get the HD exchanged but I > > > > > thought I would see if there were any technical wheezes first. > > > > > > Thanks Vladimir, that sounds promising. Can you recommend any GPT > > > programs (this is new to me)? However the dd utility failed when I > > > tried to copy my old HD to the new one. > > > > > > # dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=64K conv=noerror,sync > > > dd: error writing '/dev/sdb': No space left on device > > > 160+0 records in > > > 159+0 records out > > > 10481664 bytes (10 MB, 10 MiB) copied, 0.132944 s, 78.8 MB/s > > It looks like it. :( > > Robin > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Robin Atwood. > > "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, > Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" > from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > >
