hpi wrote:
>Colin Sauze <cjs0 <at> aber.ac.uk> writes:
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>>DO ***NOT*** wipe the entire disk (/dev/sda) you will have trouble
>>rebuilding the partition table if you do. I've done this before and in
>>the end only windows managed to save me!
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>ooops... too late. I think this must be it. I once tried to get rid of a BSD
>disklabel by dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
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>You said win saved your day last time. What did you do to restore the disk?
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Inset the cf card into a usb reader under windows and reformat it. This
should rebuild the boot sector/partition table. Can't remember if the
graphical formatter did the trick of if I had to do it from the command
line, the /u option (unconditional format) might also be of help,
although i'm not sure which versions of windows still include it (98
does for certain).
Another approach is if you have an identical card is to use dd to copy
one card to another (make sure you do this the right way round or make
an image file of the first card and use that).
Received on Sat Apr 30 2005 - 10:58:29 EDT
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