drdeath
10-01-1999, 01:45 PM
heres the deal - i have like 4 comps that i was working on the other day, swapping parts (cards, hard drives, etc) between all of them for various reasons. anyways, i had a 3.0 gig hard drive in one comp and then took it out, and put in a 1.2 gig drive, but didnt turn it on cuz i went to bed soon after. the next day, i turned it on to install linux, but i forgot that i hadnt "detected" the 1.2 gig drive in the bios. i started it up and booted off a floppy and started to install linux. it started creating the partitions, and then i got this "critical hard drive error" message (or somethin like that) and thats when it occured to me that the 3.0 gig drive's paramaters were still in the bios using this 1.2 gig drive, and linux was trying to partition 3 gigs of space instead of 1.2. i immediately quit, and restarted and redetected the drive. now, however, i cant format or partition the drive. the bios detects it fine. when i start fdisk, tho, it says "cannot read from drive 1". i can look at the "current partition settings" and it says somethin like "120 MB extended DOS aprtition" and "2800 MB in Non DOS partition" - even tho it is a 1.2 gig drive. i tried deleting them, but when i restart, they are there again. i cannot get rid of these partitions, or format the drive! does anyone know how to fix this???