Re: partition table not sticky

["J. B" <bakshi12@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 21:23:32 +0900
Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> wrote:

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> 
> I bet you used gparted first to create GPT and now trying to use these.
> This is just a wild guess.  (Some fdisk can not handle GPT as I
> remember)
> 
> If you wish to make HDD use MBR instead of GPT, you can reset it by
> something like (assuming your disk is /dev/hdx):
> $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx bs=4k
> $ sudo fdisk /dev/hdx
> 
> This should work.
> 
> You can also set partition table as msdos via parted.
> $ sudo parted /dev/hdx mklabel msdos
> 
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tried both but no luck.