I've taken a drive out of a NAS, one or the other is broken. I thought the NAS as 1) it's old 2) no lights 3) factory reset doesn't work.
So I thought I'd ditch the NAS and use the drive.
Stuck the drive in under Win 7 to format as one big drive and there were 4 partitions. I deleted the rightmost two successfully. The remaining ones fail with disk i/o error. Once it's got that, it requires a reboot to get the disk back.
So I've used DISKPART to try to format the drive. cmd is admin, I can see and select drive 7 but when I do anything it says no drive selected.
So my last ditch effort is a low level format. I guess a UNIX variant would be best for that as I no longer have a floppy with FDISK.
Can someone suggest a version of Linux I can d/l to boot from CD, ideally with a nioce graphical interface which has a low level disk format?
If that fails I need to root through the bin to retrieve the NAS parts and all its screws..!!.
TIA
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Similarily I have an external disk which seemingly works fine. However, if I try to copy stuff onto it or off from it then it simply hangs, although it still appears to be working.
Full format hangs, although Quick Format seemingly works. (Chkdsk & similar also hang).
So a low level format tool would help me as well.
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I downloaded Knoppix and had a go with GPSRTED but it won't find the disk.
I'll have a look at the Windows things tomorrow but I can't mount the drive with a drive letter (even using diskpart under cmd) so it seems the disk has had it...
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Linux disk formatting - No FM2R
