On Monday 23 April 2007, John Phelps wrote:
> It appears that I have killed my hard drive on my main testing machine.
> It will no longer accept writes to the MBR. So anyone have any 4Gig +
> IDE hard drive(s) they want to offload?
> In case you were wondering, I installed debian on it about 25 times in
> 2 days, while testing / bugfixing my installer CD.
> It was about 10 years old...
> MTBF: < forever || == whenever you need it most.
> ~John
Have you tried the program 'fdisk'. One of the options in fdisk is to
write a new empty DOS partition table. I have 'rescued' drives with the
symptom you describe this way.
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