Re: bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread Sjors Gielen
josep schreef: :D ok, now I can format the hdd, but I had to use a "non-msdos MBR", - bsd, amiga :O I started again, in gparted, with an ms-dos mbr...it worked :D... but fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of

Re: bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread josep
:D ok, now I can format the hdd, but I had to use a "non-msdos MBR", - bsd, amiga :O I started again, in gparted, with an ms-dos mbr...it worked :D... but fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 822

Re: bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread josep
I wanted to "check" the hdd in gparted, it gaves this error: > e2fsck -f -y -v /dev/sdb1 The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock

Re: bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread josep
I putted the HDD to a pc, boot it up with systemrescuecd - startx - gparted - and Format it. Without error. I even could write to the disk, no error, but: when I put it back to the USB, it does it again... gparted: libparted - unrecognized disk label I don't want to restore it, I just want to f

Re: bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Lannstrom
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:12:09PM +0100, josep wrote: > How can I bring a hdd back to life, if I did: > > dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb > > to it? > > When I try to format it to ext3, it tells: gparted: libparted - unrecognized > disk label > > Please help, the /dev/sdb is an USB HDD I'm not

Re: bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/02/2009 07:12 AM, josep wrote: How can I bring a hdd back to life, if I did: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb to it? When I try to format it to ext3, it tells: gparted: libparted - unrecognized disk label You wiped out the partition table. fdisk or cfdisk should do the trick. -- Ron J

bring back hdd from dd urandom

2009-03-02 Thread josep
How can I bring a hdd back to life, if I did: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdb to it? When I try to format it to ext3, it tells: gparted: libparted - unrecognized disk label Please help, the /dev/sdb is an USB HDD