From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.pcdesk.net (mail.pcdesk.net [65.66.213.142]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id BADBB1022C for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:16:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.0.95] ([70.58.191.30]) (AUTH: PLAIN jbahm@pcdesk.net, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3, 256bits, CAMELLIA256-SHA) by mail.pcdesk.net with esmtp; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:12:51 -0600 id 0000000000016896.000000004B4D2C23.000034E9 Message-ID: <4B4D2CD8.2090504@pcdesk.net> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:15:52 -0700 From: "Joseph C. Lininger" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: Linux Parted question (fwd) References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:16:01 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Karen, What I would do is the following. First, I would 0 the mbr of the drive in question. Like this. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ bs=512 count=1 Then use the mklabel command in the parted program to initialize the mbr. This will cause all data on a drive to be lost, so make sure to do backups if preserving the data is necessary. If you copy the partition table using print and recreate it exactly you might be able to keep the data from being lost, but it's an advanced thing and I won't go into detail on exactly how to do it in this post. If you want that information, let me know. - -- Yes means no and no means yes. Delete all files [Y]? Joseph C. Lininger, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iQEbBAEBCAAGBQJLTSzYAAoJEMh8jNraUiwqftoH9ibIRC+TN7NH+K6kM2AobAIQ FWCWTVHA1vGxm9Snlulpk5IeWSa9+rNGJonahKaAXjtR6HSBP6V9otV292i6sJLu BEO9ks3yMCGtD7h5nKmtf/xvksM/5YMMKDFtbrSGkoYosvgF96J4nTQZizyYhDbI +MtQ1HouaQHE23nn5ja8bXp5BktfdpksieX1GQpFn88lVwd5D4bNR+MSvKycWH7c uIaCt+G8qYLHubPN7tPecnbejl6ODz5bqD7T5/EoSER5sHDZBF+LFkYKYhKXtVFa Bc2Wz/gIDgC0K8E1GNvTlTUoT9wRqS+zga4EbVOlL/oRDCJHB1E1q/tgPpdcBw== =lnZ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----