Problems with Debian and SATA

[Herkules]

Thanks so much for that help Now it worked perfectly and I can browse the drive and save data on it

That was really great
Herkules

[Herkules]

One last quick reply

If I want to reformat the whole disk from 2 partitions to one partition, what am I supposed to do?
I want the disk with only 1 partition with 1TB

Hope you can help,
Herkules

[sickmind]

The easiest and fastest way is to remove both partitions and create a new one without specifying size - by default the whole disk will be selected (this will wipe your data!).

The other option preserving the data from the first partition is to install 'parted' tool (apt-get install parted), unmount the partitions, remove the second one (/dev/sda2), extend the first partition (/dev/sda1) in order to use the whole disk and then extend the file system (ntfs can be extended using the 'ntfsresize' tool).

Which method do you prefer?

[Herkules]

First, thanks for that help
So how can I remove both partitions?
I do know how to create the 1TB partition, but, as I sad before, I dunno how to remove the partitions.

Hope you can help
Herkules

[sickmind]

Using fdisk again

fdisk /dev/sda
p #print partition table
d #d stands for delete
1 #1st partition
d #delete again
2 #2nd partition
p #print partition table again, now both partitions should be gone. At this point you can simply create a new one using the 'n' key and you know the rest At the end just type 'w' in order to write all of the changes.


PS: found how to rescan for partition changes without restarting (partprobe doesn't work on this device). So after 'w' ('write' command, fdisk will quit automatically after writing the changes), just execute:
hdparm -z /dev/sda

[Herkules]

Thanks a lot for that great help