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Old 07-21-2004, 09:09 AM   #1
timwylie
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cfdisk in knoppix


I have an old windows harddrive which is messed up, and all I have with me is a knoppix disk, but when I try to cfdisk the drive it won't let me becaues it says the drive is read only. Is there a way to override this?
 
Old 07-21-2004, 09:23 AM   #2
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unmount the disk and remount it rw?
 
  


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