Comments on: How to format a hard drive on Ubuntu 12.04 using Fdisk

By: Love Guru Specialists

Love Guru Specialists — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 08:58:08 +0000

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By: Neskins

Neskins — Thu, 26 Feb 2015 18:00:46 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 08:22:11 +0000

Heber I already had a disk mounted at /dev/sdc (can be seen from screenshot). You are right about the whole new partition table but I prefer to do it manually (old habit!!).

By: Heber

Heber — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 23:12:32 +0000

Hi Chris,

/dev/sdc1 is the first partition, not the whole disk. Shouldn’t it be “fdisk /dev/sdc” instead? This way you will probably see a valid partition table as well.
Instead of deleting all partitions manually, you could create a whole new partition table with “o” (not zero).
After creating the new partition it is wise to change the filesystem id. Default fdisk makes a partition with fileystem id 83 (Linux), use “t” to change this to “7” if you are going to format it as a ntfs filesystem.

Regards,
Heber