Jim Byrnes wrote:

>Mike O'Connor wrote:
>  
>
>>Jim Byrnes wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>I bought a 160 GB USB external harddrive to make backups.  I can't 
>>>format it hpfs because it is > 64GB.  LVM doesn't seem to
want to let me 
>>>make an lvm volume out of it.
>>>
>>>The manual says it is formatted for "DOS" but
readable on a MAC.  LVM 
>>>says it is formatted NTFS.
>>>
>>>How do I go about formatting it JFS?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Hi Jim,
>>
>>Are there any pre-formatted partitions on it?
>>If you have DFSee you can see what it shows before doing anything to it!
>>Those claims about DOS-Mac-NTFS don't have the ring of truth to me!
>>
>Well not anymore.  I screwed up and shutdown without ejecting it so now 
>LVM shows it as 96MiB and can't do anything with it.  I have an old copy 
>of dfsee (6.04) registered but I can't get it to do anything either.  It 
>says the disk [D3] is not ready.
>
>Any thoughts on how to make it usable again?
>
>Thanks,  Jim
>
Hi Jim,

I get that same effect with my 512MB PenDrive Pro - if I forget to 
"eject" before disconnecting it. As I have an LVM volume-letter assigned 
to it "U:", as soon as I issue "chkdsk u: /F" from the
command line the 
volume's contents reappear - whether it's formatted FAT/HPFS or JFS.

Did you at any time have LVM volume-letters assigned to your Disk?

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Regards,
Mike

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