I crrupted my 320g hard drive.

deacy468 · 10-09-2017, 12:48 PM

Hi, guys, I was playing around with dual boot, win7 and Linux mint mate and I deleted some partitions and corrupted grub and the mbr.my dell dimension desktop will not recognise or detect the hard drive. This Pc is just my experimental machine but I would love to be able to format it, how can I get my pc to recognise the HDD so I can format it. kind regards, Deacy

chrism01 · 10-09-2017, 05:00 PM

If you get some install media eg DVD, you should be able to boot from that via the BIOS setting and use that to format your system

frankbell · 10-09-2017, 08:10 PM

And there's always gparted.

deacy468 · 10-17-2017, 01:03 PM

Thanks, guys, sorry for late reply but my head was melted. I found P Magic and that enabled me to mount and format the drive so I was able to use it again. I can't believe the speed and efficiency of Linux and it's community and am proud to say I have given up windows for good and will never dual boot windows with Linux again. Thanks for your help I did try your suggestions but my pc could not see or mount the drive. Kind regard's Deacy.