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Screwed my Hard Drive?
I can't access my hard drive. It was fairly new (less than 1 year) which I use
with PM to copy partitions before I muck with them. I had about 15 logical partitions and was in the middle of a partition copy when PM got an error and failed turning the whole drive "yellow", bad. PM 4, 7 and 8 try but can't delete it. I don't need to recover the partitions just the drive. Fdisk hangs, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 6 hangs and Gdisk (not to experienced with this one) tells me can't access disk due to too many partitions. I need to wipe the partition table, I think but don't know how to do to. Can anybody help me clean this thing? |
"HereWeGoYetAgain" wrote in message ... I can't access my hard drive. It was fairly new (less than 1 year) which I use with PM to copy partitions before I muck with them. I had about 15 logical partitions and was in the middle of a partition copy when PM got an error and failed turning the whole drive "yellow", bad. PM 4, 7 and 8 try but can't delete it. I don't need to recover the partitions just the drive. Fdisk hangs, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 6 hangs and Gdisk (not to experienced with this one) tells me can't access disk due to too many partitions. I need to wipe the partition table, I think but don't know how to do to. Can anybody help me clean this thing? Go to the manufacturers website and download their drive utilitiy. You should be able to at least ZERO the drive and after that everything should work with it. Other tools (FDISK /MBR, etc.) might be able to get the drive to a state where you could repartition, but if you want to be sure, just ZERO the drive. |
On 08 Jan 2005 15:33:56 GMT,
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HereWeGoYetAgain wrote:
I can't access my hard drive. It was fairly new (less than 1 year) which I use with PM to copy partitions before I muck with them. I had about 15 logical partitions and was in the middle of a partition copy when PM got an error and failed turning the whole drive "yellow", bad. PM 4, 7 and 8 try but can't delete it. I don't need to recover the partitions just the drive. Fdisk hangs, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 6 hangs and Gdisk (not to experienced with this one) tells me can't access disk due to too many partitions. I need to wipe the partition table, I think but don't know how to do to. Can anybody help me clean this thing? Sorry if this is a dumb question but why would one want 15 partitions? I have over a dozen drives and they all have one partition each. Each drive is dedicated to separate files like video and music. Would I gain anything by partitioning a 200G drive full of video files into multiple partitions as opposed to folders? J. |
Jimmy wrote:
HereWeGoYetAgain wrote: I can't access my hard drive. It was fairly new (less than 1 year) which I use with PM to copy partitions before I muck with them. I had about 15 logical partitions and was in the middle of a partition copy when PM got an error and failed turning the whole drive "yellow", bad. PM 4, 7 and 8 try but can't delete it. I don't need to recover the partitions just the drive. Fdisk hangs, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 6 hangs and Gdisk (not to experienced with this one) tells me can't access disk due to too many partitions. I need to wipe the partition table, I think but don't know how to do to. Can anybody help me clean this thing? Sorry if this is a dumb question but why would one want 15 partitions? I have over a dozen drives and they all have one partition each. Each drive is dedicated to separate files like video and music. Would I gain anything by partitioning a 200G drive full of video files into multiple partitions as opposed to folders? I can't speak for the OP, but I can describe a scenario with a lot of partitions on one hard drive. At one time, I kept such a drive with multiple 700 Mb partitions because I was building CD-rom images -- installers for multiple product lines/versions. |
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:21:01 -0500, "Jimmy"
wrote: HereWeGoYetAgain wrote: I can't access my hard drive. It was fairly new (less than 1 year) which I use with PM to copy partitions before I muck with them. I had about 15 logical partitions and was in the middle of a partition copy when PM got an error and failed turning the whole drive "yellow", bad. PM 4, 7 and 8 try but can't delete it. I don't need to recover the partitions just the drive. Fdisk hangs, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 6 hangs and Gdisk (not to experienced with this one) tells me can't access disk due to too many partitions. I need to wipe the partition table, I think but don't know how to do to. Can anybody help me clean this thing? Sorry if this is a dumb question but why would one want 15 partitions? I have over a dozen drives and they all have one partition each. Each drive is dedicated to separate files like video and music. Would I gain anything by partitioning a 200G drive full of video files into multiple partitions as opposed to folders? As opposed to folders?...yes. But, since you have separate, dedicated drives, you have just as good a system. Partitions/drives are better than folders when it comes to maintenance. You don't need to defrag a dedicated partition/drive. Also, accessing system/operating files is quicker when the drive isn't also crowded with specific data (video, etc.) files. Moreover, you can designate a specific cluster size for specific type files when you have a dedicated partition/drive. I keep the clusters for my regular operating files at 8k. But my multi-media partitions are set to 32k...since the files going here are usually very large...so there is little waste with a large cluster size for these files. I find 4k default clusters are usually too slow on most drives. Have a nice one... Trent© Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876! |
Trent© wrote:
On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:21:01 -0500, "Jimmy" wrote: HereWeGoYetAgain wrote: I can't access my hard drive. It was fairly new (less than 1 year) which I use with PM to copy partitions before I muck with them. I had about 15 logical partitions and was in the middle of a partition copy when PM got an error and failed turning the whole drive "yellow", bad. PM 4, 7 and 8 try but can't delete it. I don't need to recover the partitions just the drive. Fdisk hangs, Paragon Hard Disk Manager 6 hangs and Gdisk (not to experienced with this one) tells me can't access disk due to too many partitions. I need to wipe the partition table, I think but don't know how to do to. Can anybody help me clean this thing? Sorry if this is a dumb question but why would one want 15 partitions? I have over a dozen drives and they all have one partition each. Each drive is dedicated to separate files like video and music. Would I gain anything by partitioning a 200G drive full of video files into multiple partitions as opposed to folders? As opposed to folders?...yes. But, since you have separate, dedicated drives, you have just as good a system. Partitions/drives are better than folders when it comes to maintenance. You don't need to defrag a dedicated partition/drive. Also, accessing system/operating files is quicker when the drive isn't also crowded with specific data (video, etc.) files. Moreover, you can designate a specific cluster size for specific type files when you have a dedicated partition/drive. I keep the clusters for my regular operating files at 8k. But my multi-media partitions are set to 32k...since the files going here are usually very large...so there is little waste with a large cluster size for these files. I find 4k default clusters are usually too slow on most drives. Have a nice one... Trent© Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876! Thank you. That was the best explaination I have heard so far. Regards. J. |
Noozer"
Go to the manufacturers website and download their drive utilitiy. You ould be able to at least ZERO the ve and after that everything should work with it. It hangs Other tools (FDISK /MBR, etc.) might e able to get the drive to a state where you could repartition, but if you want to be sure, just ZERO the drive. Fdisk /mbr, works I think, well it "comes back" with :A but then fdisk after that hangs Jimmy" Sorry if this is a dumb question but why would one want 15 partitions? I have over a dozen drives and they all Lots of reasons, I used this drive as a backup for images of my sisters, bothers, friends, clients pc's, "fresh" copies of Win98se, W2k, Xp etc, copies of my system when I want to experiment etc. Trent=A9 Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876! I like that :) |
HWGYA wrote:
Noozer" Go to the manufacturers website and download their drive utilitiy. You ould be able to at least ZERO the ve and after that everything should work with it. It hangs Other tools (FDISK /MBR, etc.) might e able to get the drive to a state where you could repartition, but if you want to be sure, just ZERO the drive. Fdisk /mbr, works I think, well it "comes back" with :A but then fdisk after that hangs Jimmy" Sorry if this is a dumb question but why would one want 15 partitions? I have over a dozen drives and they all Lots of reasons, I used this drive as a backup for images of my sisters, bothers, friends, clients pc's, "fresh" copies of Win98se, W2k, Xp etc, So do you think if I have a backup drive that has different file types like photos and software I should definitely separate them into various partitions instead of just folders? The I am guessing that the partitions I use the most will only be that part of the drive I would be defragging. This sound more effective if I have this right. Thanks. J. |
I can't access my hard drive. It was fairly new (less than 1 year) which I use
with PM to copy partitions before I muck with them. I had about 15 logical partitions and was in the middle of a partition copy when PM got an error and failed turning the whole drive "yellow", bad. PM 4, 7 and 8 try but can't delete it. I don't need to recover the partitions just the drive. Do a low level format (zero fill) with debug.exe from DOS: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q106419/ Regards, Chris |
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