digitard Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Okay, I've decided that the disc I have is just bad. I've tried burning it with 2 different DVD burners (on 2 systems), and 2 different types of HDD's (1 IDE one SATA). Both times its hung at 1% and when I reboot if that hard drive is connected it wont get past the bios drive detection screen. I did a hot plugin with the drive and now in XP in the disk manager I cna see the drive but I have no options with it, and when I start I dont get the "new drive installation" wizard so it wont let me format the drive and wipe the partition. It says something like GPT PROTECTIVE PARTITION in the info and I have no options when I right click, etc. How do I wipe that drive again, so it wont hang at startup, until I get a new version of the download? D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiaboliK Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 try GParted Live Cd I dont know if it supports hot plug or not. you may want to try this also: hot plug in XP and now goto the run Program in start button> Run> now type in diskmgmt.msc look for your hd you just plugged in and look for a healthy/unhealthy unknown drive and right click and erase partition. and now selct your windows partition and right click and set active. quit disk management and reboot witht that drive and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitard Posted February 10, 2007 Author Share Posted February 10, 2007 Thats the problem. When I go into disk management all the options are grey'd out for that drive. Thats the first thing I tried. It says (Healthy) gpt protective partition next to it and when I right click on the drive none of the format/partition options are clickable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 open command prompt and type diskpart ? and follow the on screen commands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitard Posted February 10, 2007 Author Share Posted February 10, 2007 Nothing was working, but I was finally able to find a program. If anyone else runs into this there's a program on the net called DBAN (http://dban.sourceforge.net/) which is a boot disk that will wipe all data off the drive. Worked perfect for me. I just unplugged my other 2 drives, ran DBAN with only this drive attached (did a hot plugin during boot to get the system to boot to the disk) and it worked great. The drive is now detected, boots fine, and its formatting as we speak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windoze Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Finally I've found a way to do this [Caution: This will wipe all data on your disk and there is no way to recover!!!] 1. Run CMD.EXE 2. Execute 'DiskPart' in the command line 3. Type 'list disk' command, it will show something like this: Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt ----------------------------------------------------- Disk 0 Online 100GB 33GB Disk 1 Online 200GB 66GB ... 4. Uses 'select disk #' to select the correct disk, where '#' is the disk number in the list 5. Uses 'clean' command to turn the disk back to MBR partition table. Now you can use disk management tools in WindowsXP to create/modify partitions on this disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grannysmith Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 (edited) digitard: Well, thanks for posting this. I felt like a complete idiot after having an experience partly similar to yours. It took me over 6 hours to get 10.4.8 installed, and then it just left me on a black screen with white text saying "reboot". I rebooted, and as long as that hard drive was connected to the machine, the machine wouldn't boot-from any drive whatsoever. Then, when I tried to reformat the disk in Windows in another PC, Windows' Disk Management could see the partition, but couldn't delete or format it. I finally found out that the drive mfgrs. disk utility and an Xbox tool can be used to format it. My post here: Cannot mount /dev/disk0s1 If you don't mind my asking, what brand/model hard drive are you using? What brand/model motherboard? If you do manage to figure out what it was that was preventing the machine from booting when you had that drive in the machine, would you PLEASE let us know. I, for one, would like to be able to install 10.4.8, but not if it will prevent the PC in which I want it to run from booting. BTW, I checked my Jas 10.4.8 revised image with MD5SUM before burning it, and I verified the burn, and still had the same GPT parition issue, (though AFAIK, I managed to finish the OS install). How do we add this information to the install FAQ (or IFAQ-Infrequently asked questions)? Philippe Edited March 2, 2007 by grannysmith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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