What I normally do is use Gparted from a LiveUSB/DVD to create a new MSDOS partition table (or whatever it calls it) and leave it at that.
Then I boot from the real OS (assuming you can etc) and then use that to create the partitions and format them etc.
Cheers, T i m
I could tell you but as you won't actually believe me you will have to investigate what background process go on on HDDs yourself.
What numbers are those?
NT
The actual device numbers/names in /dev.
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