Operating Systems > Linux and UNIX

Help me with Red Hat 8

(1/4) > >>

Doogee:
Help me...

When i get up to partitioning it says it can not read the partition table and it has to initialise the drive, erasing all data!!!

Is there anything i can do? could it be to do with me going over the first cluster or whatever it is??

Doogee:
can i do it without killing the data? like re set the partition table but still have all my shit on it or something...

voidmain:
1) What is the make/model of your drive (if you know) and it's size?
2) Are you using any special drive software like "disk manager" or "ontrack" etc?
3) You might try setting the drive to LBA mode in your BIOS.
4) I assume you get this message when you try and use Disk Druid? If so could you write down the *exact* words of the message and post them so I can do a little searching?

Doogee:
1: not sure of make and model but its an IDE 20gig.
2: i have no idea what that is so my guess would be no.
3: Im pretty sure it already is.
4: Yeah when i get to partitioning i select partition with disk druid and nothing comes up it just said
"Could not read partition table of 'hda' this may be because you used another partition manager and it [stuffed it up]. To continue your drive will need to be initialised, erasing ALL DATA ON DISK, do you want to continue?


edit: typo fixing

[ November 25, 2002: Message edited by: -=Doogee=- ]

voidmain:
You need to check for sure whether the BIOS is set to LBA mode on that drive. Also, have you already shrunk your Windows partition so there is free space on the drive to create more partitions? And if you boot the RedHat CD again, select "fdisk" rather than "Disk Druid" and do a "p" to list the partition table. I want to know what the geometry of your drive is (heads, sectors, cylinders, units) and how many partitions it shows if any, their type and the starting and ending cylinder. Then select "q" to quit without actually writing/changing anything.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page