volmark
June 12th, 2008, 05:48 AM
I’ve installed second HD that was for formatted as NTFS with Windows 2003 on it.
Then I’ve formatted it with $ mkfs –t ext3 /dev/sdb1. Then it was partitioned with sudo cfdisk.
I could mount it and generally it works fine except when check this with sudo fdisk –l it still reports wrong file system:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 9728 78140128+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
I have done it multiple times just to be sure that I done all the steps correctly but it still reports file system is HPFS/NTFS
Is there simple way to destroy NTFS partition tables and boot record on my second HD ?? Long time ago I’ve used low level utility for Windows where I could reset HD’s sectors manually bit by bit. Is there something similar for Linux ??
Then I’ve formatted it with $ mkfs –t ext3 /dev/sdb1. Then it was partitioned with sudo cfdisk.
I could mount it and generally it works fine except when check this with sudo fdisk –l it still reports wrong file system:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 9728 78140128+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
I have done it multiple times just to be sure that I done all the steps correctly but it still reports file system is HPFS/NTFS
Is there simple way to destroy NTFS partition tables and boot record on my second HD ?? Long time ago I’ve used low level utility for Windows where I could reset HD’s sectors manually bit by bit. Is there something similar for Linux ??