I've got an old Sony vaio 505g, that I like very much, and it's quite linux friendly. However, twice now since since getting it a month ago, I've un-suspended only to find the partition table on hda completely gone. The first time I hastily forced a fsck on /hda1 from the redhat 6.2 rescue mode and lost any hope of recovery. However, upon formatting and re-installing the redhat install couldn't read the disk, write the disk, or create a partition table. Assuming the drive had died I used it as an excuse to replace for 2gig drive with a 4gig drive. Now, two weeks after installing the 4gig -- two weeks during which everything worked perfectly -- the same thing has happened. The partition table is just plain missing. A boot into rescue mode shows that that data's still on the drive, but fdisk reports no paritition table. Since I had nothing special on that drive I decided to re-format and the same thing's happening. Fdisk says it's writing out a parition table, gives no errors, but then when I run fdisk again, there's no info in the partition table. I notice that there's a discrepancy between the heads/sector/cylindar counts given by the BIOS (where they're autodetected) and fdisk, but I don't know enough about disk geometries to tell if that's healthy deception on the part of lilo to trick its way past some max partition size nonsense, or if the it's the cause of my problems. Does anyone have any tips they can give me? There's the remote possibility that this new disk is died too, but I think it's more likely that I'm doing something stupid and that first one was okay too. Help! -- Ry4an Brase - http://ry4an.org /~\ 'If you're not a rebel when you're 20 you've got no heart; if \ / you're not establishment when you're 30 you've got no brain. X Join the ASCII ribbon campaign against HTML email / \