Re: Unknown Disklabel

[Andrew Clausen]

Thomas Roelz wrote:
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I don't post this on the parted mailing list because the matter is
> pretty urgent.

Don't follow the logic here...

You could CC me, if you want it to be quikcer, but address@hidden
and address@hidden are the same machine ;-)  (fencepost.gnu.org)

Also, you could use IRC ;-)  #parted on openprojects

> I had a strange problem with a newly bought machine
> that had Win ME preinstalled. Obviously parted can't handle the
> disk that's built in and preformatted with Windows.
> 
> Trying "parted print" yields:
> 
> ERROR: Unable to open /dev/hda - Unrecognised disk label
> 
> fdisk has no problems with this disk. Have you ever seen
> this phenomenon?

Weird.  Could you send in the partition table?

        # dd if=/dev/hda if=table bs=512 count=1

Andrew Clausen