9 Jan
2003
9 Jan
'03
12:28 p.m.
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Clinton Baker wrote:
If you use the dd command, you'll probably need to
run sync afterwards to
ensure that everything gets updated correctly. If the partition table is
really corrupt, a simpler method may just be to run fdisk /mbr (I'm
assuming you have a DOS boot disk or DOS/Windows is on the drive
currently). In either case, see if fdisk (DOS or Linux) can see the
current partition info and remove it on it's own.
Huh???
dd is NOT a file write. There's nothing to flush to disk, so the sync
command will be useless. And, worse, DOS "fdisk /mbr" doesn't touch the
partition table at all. It reinstates a default DOS master boot record.
Whatever partitions are defined, correct, corrupt, or whatever, will
still be there.
"dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=2" assuming it's the first
{Primary Master} IDE drive, WILL fix a corrupt partition table. BTDT
more than once.
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