WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to TOM WALKER on 02-26-05 18:19:

 -> -> Hewlett Packard OEM CD.
 ->
 -> That could make things more understandable.  tweek their "OEM" CD's to be very fully automated. THey
just march off
 -> and leave you behind and you cannot stop it from Fdisking and Formatting
 -> until lit is too late

 WC> You've got it.
 WC> That's EXACTLY what happened.
 WC> Toast in the blink of an eye.
 WC> Now Linux doesn't even recognize the drive :-(

Wayne, try an FDISK replacement called AEFDISK. Using it, I was able to
get an older drive recognized (delete/remake MBR) after utilities like
"Zap" and "Wipe" and "Debug" failed to
recognize it. It's shareware, but
only a couple of quite esoteric functions (batch setups, etc.) are
disabled. It should come up quickly in Google, but, if it doesn't, I
could email you a copy (it's tiny, and puts FDISK to shame). For my last
few setups, it's been my partition table tool of choice.

[later]

I just finished reading that the BIOS can't see the drive. Try entering
the drive parameters manually, rather than using auto-detect (it may be
worth trying a second time, after clearing CMOS, if it didn't work the
first time).


   Ken

 
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