Re: [Thinkpad] R40-replacing hard drive unsuccessfully FOLLOW-UP

I have found that if you run WIPE, which kills all the partitions, the
recovery CD's can then do their work.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Serafin" <jps@pobox.com>
To: "STeve Andre'" <andres@msu.edu>
Cc: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] R40-replacing hard drive unsuccessfully FOLLOW-UP

> On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:02:39PM -0500, STeve Andre' wrote:
> >
> > I haven't seen this problem often either, but it has come up a few
times.
> > I think the last time I saw a geometry problem was with a 20 or 40G
> > travelstar and a really old Dell Optiplex like a gxmt 166 (166MHz). The
> > thinkpad disk didn't have any readable data on it; putting it back in
the
> > tp worked. After thinking about it a while it dawned on me that I had a
> > geometry problem.
> >
> > I think that all 'modern' machines are the same, since I haven't seen
this
> > in a while.
>
> Regarding geometry issues, is it really necessary to format a disk in a
> Thinkpad or just fdisk it in the Thinkpad?
>
> One nice thing about linux fdisk is that the fdisk command can be used to
> impose any reasonable geometry on the disk. So, with linux fdisk (and
> maybe others), it may not even be necessary to fdisk or format the disk
> in the Thinkpad.
>
> --
> An undocumented propietary data format is not archival.
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> jps at pobox com | Operating an automobile is more like riding than
driving.
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