On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, Stephane HUC "CIOTBSD" wrote:

> Question: How i can "write" fstype "NTFS" on the "defective" HDD?
> It's really formated in NTFS - mode normal, on Win7!


Try with "fdisk -e" under OpenBSD.

Use "07" for the partition id and, for the other parameters (offset,
size), just press enter to leave them unchanged.

Example:

<root@x220:~># fdisk -e sd2
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1> p
Disk: sd2       geometry: 498/255/63 [8011774 Sectors]
Offset: 0       Signature: 0xAA55
            Starting         Ending         LBA Info:
 #: id      C   H   S -      C   H   S [       start:        size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*0: 04      0  32  33 -    498 181   1 [        2048:     8009726 ] MSDOS  
 1: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
 2: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
 3: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
fdisk: 1> edit 0
            Starting         Ending         LBA Info:
 #: id      C   H   S -      C   H   S [       start:        size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*0: 04      0  32  33 -    498 181   1 [        2048:     8009726 ] MSDOS  
Partition id ('0' to disable) [01 - FF]: [4] (? for help) 07
Do you wish to edit in CHS mode? [n] 
Partition offset [0 - 8011774]: [2048] 
Partition size [1 - 8009726]: [8009726] 
fdisk:*1> w
Writing MBR at offset 0.
fdisk: 1> q
<root@x220:~># fdisk sd2
Disk: sd2  geometry: 498/255/63 [8011774 Sectors]
Offset: 0       Signature: 0xAA55
            Starting         Ending         LBA Info:
 #: id      C   H   S -      C   H   S [       start:        size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*0: 07      0  32  33 -    498 181   1 [        2048:     8009726 ] NTFS        
 1: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
 2: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
 3: 00      0   0   0 -      0   0   0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
<root@x220:~># ^D


Ciao!
David

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