fdisk

theresaboothe · 01-28-2005, 08:11 AM

When I type fdisk /dev/hda3 I see "Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun or SGI disklabel...." Should I buy a new hard drive?

masand · 01-28-2005, 08:33 AM

try

fdisk -l /dev/hda

instead

regards

jrtayloriv · 01-28-2005, 08:36 AM

first do this man fdisk

then try this fdisk /dev/hda

always good to be informed before you start playing with hd partitions

good luck,
jrtayloriv

masand · 01-28-2005, 09:08 AM

one more warning

before u quit , be sure of what u have done and then only write that partiton table, else u may exit using 'q' , this will not save any changes that u have made using fdisk

'w' will write that changes

regards