Formatting a disk

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

On 4/13/06, Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at zmsl.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I did this:  dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb count=1 bs=512
>
> I was expecting this to copy the MBR, which it probably did. But it also
> made fdisk not understand the disk:
>
> # fdisk /dev/hdb
> The number of cylinders for this disk is ... There is nothing wrong with
> that but it is larger than 1024 and could ... cause problems...
>
> Unable to seek on /dev/hdb
> #
>
> So, fdisk barfs on /dev/hdb.


Did you delete the partition first thing when you entered?




Does anyone have a rescue suggestion? (yes, I should have done a backup
> of hdb's MBR but I didn't). There must be a tool that can bring sanity
> to a disk with a broken MBR.
>
> Btw, yes, fdisk did work before the dd command.
>
> Btw, if I can't copy the MBR from one disk to another I don't see how
> I'll be able to install Ubuntu OEM images on many disks.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
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Russ
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