Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/07/03/01:21:52
Hans Wienen wrote:
> When I tried to format the new msdos partition, the format programme
> really screwed up, giving me about 700 k (!) instead of 500M, the rest
> being "bad sectors". I suppose this is a low-level formatting problem,
> since if I mount the partition under Linux, it can read it, write it and
> basically do anything with it you would suspect an operating system ever
> wanted to do with a hard disk. But dos still gives me about 500 M bad
> sectors.
Not to be off-topic, but... Read the Linux fdisk documentation. You
shouldn't create ms-dos partitions with it. You should use ms-dos fdisk
to create dos partitions. I hope this helps.
--
Kertis Henderson
kah190 AT psu DOT edu
"The software said it requires Windows 95 or better, so I installed
Linux."
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