On 03/17/2015 05:58 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
The solution is to go to firmware setup and define a different drive
as primary. Or zero the first 440 bytes of the external drive e.g. dd
if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=440 count=1
Interesting.
I used fdisk.
I guess fdisk does not clear those first 440 bytes?

I am a bit concerned about dd'ing 440 zeros from /dev/zero
into this drive, as it has about 0.5 TB of data on it, and I have
no room (yet) to back it up to :)


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