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From: James <jtp@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help!
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:45:18
Message-Id: AANLkTi=vGQzM4J=o+YT6mZUrQ8tGKhNUWrW0HrzxZPnZ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help! by Albert Hopkins
1 Albert,
2
3 Thanks for the response.
4
5 "dd" for the lazy -- takes 2 seconds to wipe the top of the drive
6 instead of getting rid of numerous partitions that the manufacturer
7 put on the drive.
8
9 The disk isn't bad -- if it was then I wouldn't have the ability to
10 recover the files via foremost / scalpel.
11
12 -james
13
14 On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
15 > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 04:57 +0000, James wrote:
16 > [...]
17 >> try  www.namesys.com/support.html,  and for
18 >> $25 the author of fsck,  or a colleague  if he is out,  will  step you
19 >> through it all.
20 >
21 > Did you try that? ;)
22 >
23 > It's probably a bad disk and you need to take it back...
24 >
25 > Not sure why you had to dd/urandom to clear the partition table.  Just
26 > simple running fdisk and saving will re-write over what previously
27 > existed in the partition table.
28 >
29 >
30 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] failed reiserfs partition - help! Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>