Gparted problem - Broke my hard drive?

[saj0577]

So what commands would i use to totaly wipe

sdc

in order to put it back to factory standards as such..

[irw]

have you tried fdisk, and formating the drive / partitions from the command line?

Make sure you know exactly which partitions you are dealing with - you don't want to wipe the HD in your machine.

[irw]

snap! great minds think alike!

in a terminal, I would start with

fdisk -l

which will list your partitions; make sure you know which is which.

Then

sudo fdisk /dev/sdX  (put correct disk here)

.
When fdisk is running, type P to get a list of partitions, M to get a list of commands. It is fairly self explanatory. Finally W to write the changes to disk. If you get confused / change your mind, Q will quit the program without committing any changes to the disk.

[saj0577]

stephen@Stephen-Laptop:~$ fdisk

Usage: fdisk [-l] [-b SSZ] [-u] device
E.g.: fdisk /dev/hda  (for the first IDE disk)
  or: fdisk /dev/sdc  (for the third SCSI disk)
  or: fdisk /dev/eda  (for the first PS/2 ESDI drive)
  or: fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0  or: fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0  (for RAID devices)
  ...
stephen@Stephen-Laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd8b7d8b7

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        2432    19535008+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            2433        2675     1951897+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3            2676        7296    37118182+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            2676        2802     1020096   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            2803        4077    10241406   83  Linux
stephen@Stephen-Laptop:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdc

Unable to open /dev/sdc

[wpshooter]

If you look at the thread mate that is what progrma i get the error with mate.

Saj

Is it possible for me deleting a bootable partition for it to kill the HD forever?

Yes, sorry, I just remembered that.

No, I doubt that any permanent damage is done.

Like the next poster said, try using fdisk.

[irw]

I have found it is always worth pasting errors into google; this gives you this.

In particular look at this - it sounds like the same problem as you have.

[saj0577]

sudo parted /dev/sdc
Error: Could not stat device /dev/sdc - No such file or directory.        
Retry/Cancel?

[saj0577]

fsck /dev/sdc
fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
e2fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
fsck.ext2: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdc

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device&gt;

badblocks /dev/sdc
badblocks: No such file or directory while trying to determine device size

[saj0577]

PARTED

(parted) mkfs 1 ext2                                                      
Error: Input/output error during write on /dev/sdb

GPARTED
SAME AS BEFORE

Saj

[saj0577]

Created a 1GB fat32 partition and I have been growing it by 10gb everytime no problms so far and I am at 80gb so i think it is a problem with the way my computer formats ext maybe?

Saj