nixCraft

Hey,
Been having a few issues getting an old HDD to work. Tried ubuntu and mint, both ate themselves.
Here is copy pasta from terminal, anyone know what my next step should be?



mint@mint ~ $ partprobe
Warning: Unable to open /dev/scd0 read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/scd0 has been opened read-only.
mint@mint ~ $ sudo fdisk /dev/scd0
You will not be able to write the partition table.
Note: sector size is 2048 (not 512)
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x7dead7af.
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.

Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)

Command (m for help): w

Unable to write /dev/scd0


much obliged.

/dev/scd0 is cdrom. To list all hard disk enter something as follows
Be careful while running fdisk command.

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