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From: maxim wexler <blissfix@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:34:19
Message-Id: 20051019232944.18442.qmail@web31712.mail.mud.yahoo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive by Scott Tiret
1 --- Scott Tiret <stiret@××××××××××.net> wrote:
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3 > On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 09:28 -0700, maxim wexler
4 > wrote:
5 > >
6 > > I wonder if there isn't a tiny part of the drive
7 > that
8 > > comes before the first partition, like those first
9 > few
10 > > grooves on a vinyl record ;-)
11 >
12 > There is. You can reset it by using fdisk /mbr
13 > (from the Microsoft
14
15 doesn't work
16
17 > Windows boot disk). Or you can try using cfdisk as
18 > described below.
19 >
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