logoalt Hacker News

toast0last Wednesday at 6:40 AM1 replyview on HN

IIRC, that error text comes from the mbr. You may have trashed the partition table?


Replies

Graziano_Mlast Thursday at 1:30 AM

Yeah, I think so. It's been ~25 years, and only while typing out that comment did I remember the error message and realize that's probably what I had done.

If I recall correctly, he ended up scrapping the drive.