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04-04-2006, 12:26 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Liverpool, Chester, U.K.
Distribution: Red Hat 8, Mandriva 2007 Free, Fedora 2,3,6
Posts: 35
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Problem detecting ide hdd at boot
basically i have 'messed' up my hdd and i have removed the partitions on both the hdd i haven't got a floppy drive, i need to wrte an mbr to the 80gb one and i want to creat an ext3 partition over both drives.the 80 and 160 is there a way of editing your partitions of the FC3 boot disk. when i insert the disk for a system install it says that there are no hdd. the drive were fine and present at boot previously, but by removing the partitions and not re-writing new ones the drives are not accesible. so i should have
ide1:hdd1
ide2:hdd2
ide3:dvd1
ide4:dvd4
i get
ide1:
ide2:
ide3:dvd1
ide4:dvd4
this is the memory test phase of post. this happened directly after i did an untidy shutdown of FC3
Last edited by J.W.; 04-06-2006 at 02:07 PM.
Reason: Mod note: please mind the language, thanks
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04-04-2006, 12:44 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Somewhere on the String
Distribution: Debian Wheezy (x86)
Posts: 6,094
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You can download and use the "Ultimate Boot Disk" to use some disk tools that can fix the mbr. Use "System Rescue CD" or Knoppix to use qtparted to format the disk.
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04-04-2006, 12:46 PM
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Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: Cornwall, UK
Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04
Posts: 464
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Knoppix would be a good place to start, boot from CD and it has a few partition tools included on it.
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04-06-2006, 12:01 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Liverpool, Chester, U.K.
Distribution: Red Hat 8, Mandriva 2007 Free, Fedora 2,3,6
Posts: 35
Original Poster
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Thanx for the replies, i downloaded the Ultimate boot disk and i was able to bring them back within minutes
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