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Subject: Re: dangerously dedicated disks
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..I have found if you use the NT4.0 "delpart.exe", it will remove any
stubborn partition... then, Fdisk... or, also, have you tried DOS Fdisk and
tell it to delete non-dos partition? Between these tow of both should do
it, it the HDs are any good....

At 04:21 PM 8.4.2001 +0100, TPalfi wrote:
>anyone with help,
>
>i have been given two disks (Seagate ST343442A and Fujitsu MPE3064AT). both
>of them have been dangerously formated for freebsd 4.2.  I would like to
>reclaim them for my spare machine in which i would to fit at least one of
>them.  how do i get them going again.
>
>i have tried fdisk form /stand/sysinstall to recreate them but everything
>failed.  they were not my disks so i cannot tell exactly what happend with
>them.  i would like to start from scratch and reinstall 4.3 stable for my
>home network.
>
>i have been fighting with them for quite a long time now and read every
>entry in the mailgroups but nothing seem to match my case.  
>
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Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
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