[iyonix-support] Please help -- formatting a new HD
- From: "Anton Mans" <anton.mans@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Group Iyonix" <iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 13:00:32 +0000
I am about to reformat the HD that came with my Iyonix, and I would be most
grateful to anyone who would be so kind as to lay out for me the steps I
should follow. I ask because I have a feeling that I saw somewhere that
there are some quite catastrophic pitfalls along the path and, even though I
have done this exercise before, I cannot remember what the potential
problems are, and am consequently paralysed by fear!
For what it's worth -- and nobody needs to read the rest of this message! --
the reason for doing this is that I had partitioned the drive a year or so
ago to make way for a Linux installation which I eventually gave up on. I
now want to repartition the drive so that the entire drive is one partition,
which will of course effectively delete the current contents.
I have a second HD in the Iyonix, a 250Gb drive which I had hoped to be able
to use for Linux, but subsequently discovered that the hardware did not have
the top bit set, so could not access any HD address above 128Gb. I have
copied the contents of the original drive onto the 250Gb drive, and intend
to copy it back onto the original HD once I have done the partitioning. The
250Gb drive will then be removed, to go into a wintel PC which recently had
a HD crash.
Any help most gratefully received!
Anton
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