Hard Drive Partitions

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Thu Feb 11 23:41:13 1999

PG Manney wrote:
>
> I have a couple of old WD hard drives I'm trying to revitalize. They say
> they have no partitions, but when I try to lay in a partition, they say
> there's no room.
>
> Would a LLF take care of this (vide recent discussion)?

Old could mean a lot of things; are you talking MFM, IDE, or what? In my
experience, the message you are getting indicates some type of problem with
the system tracks. A couple of possibilities include having the wrong
parameters for an IDE drive, and bad tracks on MFM (RLL, ESDI, SCSI) type
drives. As I think about it, I would first check to make sure you have the
proper disk parameters in CMOS for the drive you are using.
Received on Thu Feb 11 1999 - 23:41:13 GMT

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