Timeline for Revive HDD after murdering it with dd?
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| Nov 2, 2017 at 18:16 | comment | added | jdwolf | The first is most likely either an extended partition table (dynamic disk for MBR) or its reserved space for a bootloader. | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 9:11 | comment | added | Las Ten | Maaany years ago I had some Linux on this laptop together with Windows. Maybe this 105 MB is the remains of grub? That's why it is marked as bootable? | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 9:08 | comment | added | Las Ten | So now that I followed your advice and checked the old drive with fdisk, I started to re-create the partitions manually on the new one. Went fine. The 2nd partition, former system, 109 GB, and the 3rd partition, former data were created and could even be formatted! The 1st one however, a mere 105 MB one (what? I didn't create that for sure and it was even bootable!) cannot be formatted on the new drive. But this one never complained about bad sectors, really! | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 8:27 | comment | added | Las Ten | Regarding the original WD drive it says that partitioning is MBR. Bytes: 500,107,837,440. Number of sectors: 976,773,120. Geometry: 255 h / 63 s / 60801 c. Everything is the same, except the manufacturer. | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 2:35 | history | answered | jdwolf | CC BY-SA 3.0 |