On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 00:27 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label > 2) Is "msdos" a valid option to choose for this hard drive? Yes it is. Is there some output if you run # parted /dev/sdb mklabel msdos ? Regards, Ralf