On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Petra Lynn Hofman wrote:

> I've installed a second 1.6 G hdd,  Formatted using Sys Cmdr I formatted 
> for NetBSD.  It Formatted as FAT.  When I went to install NetBSD on this 
> drive the install from cd-rom failed.  Now SysCmdr reports a damaged 
> partition ( 1MB ) which SC can't delete.
> 
> So, do I have a permanently damaged HDD repairable only with a high level 
> repartition or is there some way to salvage the drive?  Further, I think 
> because of the damage partition nothing will see this second drive.

Could you try to remove the partition and make it again with
fdisk -u wd0 (where wd0 is the name of the disk (supossed you have an ide
disk)).
See if that can do some good.
If nothing else works you could always consider a low level format.
But first try the above, a low level format must be done carefully with
specific software from the manufacturer of the disk itself for else its a
nice way to make your disk unusuable.
Bye,

Mipam.