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Dead HDD oh no!

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  • 01-03-2007 6:42pm
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    tjsniper
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭


    Ok here's the full story:

    At christmas i got a Sata2 400 GB HDD.
    I had my old 80GB HDD setup as slave,but it never worked and today I realised the jumpers were wrong.

    After I configured my old HDD to slave it used to detected it as a 2.5GB HDD with no disklabel.
    But today I corrected the jumpers and its detected as 72.4 GB.
    I'm trying to use this HDD as a master on a different machine.

    I am unable to install any OS and the only one which will detect it is Ubuntu linux.But,when I partition it and set it all up it gives the error "could not write disklabel" and exits.

    what shall I do?

    Thank you for reading this and I look forward to your replies


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    #2
    tjsniper
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭tjsniper


    I was just thinking there and I got a brilliant idea!

    Completely clear the HDD (not a format)clear the disklabel,firmware,Everything!

    As far as I know formatting does not clean the disklabel and some more things.

    Does anybody have any ideas how to do this?


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    tjsniper
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭tjsniper


    will anybody hazard a guess?any help is good


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    #4
    Snowbat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭Snowbat


    "could not write disklabel" <- was that the exact error message in Ubuntu? Google finds absolutely nothing for that which is very unusual for an error message in a popular Linux distro.

    Which program were you using for this? Gparted?

    What designation does it give the drive? /dev/hda?


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