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Old 04-25-2022, 01:26 PM   #1
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Unhappy Can't create a new partition


In Gparted it reports "/dev/sdg: unrecognised disk label" for my hard disk.
When I try to create a partition it reports "No partition table found on device /dev/sdg"
When I create a partition table (msdos) nothing changes on the hard disk.
 
Old 04-25-2022, 01:36 PM   #2
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In Gparted it reports "/dev/sdg: unrecognised disk label" for my hard disk.
When I try to create a partition it reports "No partition table found on device /dev/sdg"
When I create a partition table (msdos) nothing changes on the hard disk.
Are you using extended partitions? I think you're limited to 4 primary partitions on a device before you have to use extended.

Last edited by SlowCoder; 04-25-2022 at 01:53 PM. Reason: I'm an idiot and mixed up my technologies
 
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Old 04-25-2022, 01:58 PM   #3
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I'm not using LVM. The hard disk is filled with unallocated space.
 
Old 04-25-2022, 02:01 PM   #4
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I'm not using LVM. The hard disk is filled with unallocated space.
I apologize. I meant extended partition, not LVM.
 
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Old 04-25-2022, 02:10 PM   #5
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The hard drive has nothing on it.
 
Old 04-25-2022, 02:11 PM   #6
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In Gparted it reports "/dev/sdg: unrecognised disk label" for my hard disk. When I try to create a partition it reports "No partition table found on device /dev/sdg" When I create a partition table (msdos) nothing changes on the hard disk.
You provide no details at all about your system, hardware, version/distro of Linux, or what exactly you're typing in to get that message. Your posts seem to follow this trend:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...an-4175710821/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...em-4175708135/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ms-4175705056/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ws-4175705123/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ne-4175705027/

Is the disk actually formatted? New disk? Old? Connected how? SSD/HDD/Flash drive?? We can't guess.
 
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Old 04-25-2022, 02:30 PM   #7
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I'm using Ubuntu Impish; Linux 5.13.0-40-generic x86_64.
I tried to run a low level format with HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF...l-Format-Tool/
It's an old disk; I think it may be damaged.
It's an external hard drive that's not a flash drive.
 
Old 04-25-2022, 02:32 PM   #8
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The hard disk is marked as Disk /dev/sdg - 60 GB / 55 GiB (RO) - HITACHI_ DK23FB-60.
 
Old 04-25-2022, 02:43 PM   #9
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The hard disk is marked as Disk /dev/sdg - 60 GB / 55 GiB (RO) - HITACHI_ DK23FB-60.
Your post contains no usable information. Actually it was already told, so I can only repeat others: please give us relevant details about what did you try exactly (what command, what menu or option ...), what's happened exactly. What message did you get (exactly).

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-...html#beprecise
 
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Old 04-25-2022, 02:52 PM   #10
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That IS an old hdd -- Hitachi Travelstar -- had one die on me after wiping in prep for Linux install. Instantly went to "end of life" it seems and I could do nothing with it. Years ago, though, and that's all I remember.

I's say it's not worth the trouble.
 
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Old 04-25-2022, 02:56 PM   #11
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I tried to run a low level format with HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool
It's an old disk; I think it may be damaged.
Yes, depending on the disk, or your format params, this could be an issue. It's not advisable to do this. Look up your make/model and verify your params are correct.
 
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Old 04-25-2022, 03:03 PM   #12
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Post Screen shots

Screen1.jpg shows gparted displaying my hard drive.
Screen2.jpg shows information about my unallocated hard drive space.
Screen3.jpg mentions no partition table is found on device /dev/sdg.
Screen4.jpg is about creating a partition table on /dev/sdg, but this doesn't do anything.
If I try to make a new partition I still get screen3.jpg
I'm stuck. What do I do from here?
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Old 04-25-2022, 03:08 PM   #13
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Screen1.jpg shows gparted displaying my hard drive.
Screen2.jpg shows information about my unallocated hard drive space.
Screen3.jpg mentions no partition table is found on device /dev/sdg.
Screen4.jpg is about creating a partition table on /dev/sdg, but this doesn't do anything.
If I try to make a new partition I still get screen3.jpg
I'm stuck. What do I do from here?
Ok. Did you tell gparted to write changes after setting up the partition table, and before moving to next step?
 
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Old 04-25-2022, 03:19 PM   #14
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After I try to create a partition table (screen4.jpg) Gparted scans the hard drives and then reports that 0 operations are pending (screen1.jpg)
 
Old 04-25-2022, 03:44 PM   #15
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A HITACHI DK23FB-60 is a 2.5" IDE hard drive which means it probably needs an external power supply to spin the disk.

Can you feel the drive spinning?

The system is reading the information from the controller card but can not actually read or write to the disk itself. Your probably getting lots of I/O errors which can be seen from the output of the dmesg command.

You could try running a SMART test but I would assume the external chassis is not new enough and probably not supported by the smartctl utility.

Modern disks inclulding IDE's can not be low level formatted anymore.

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