Guy King wrote:
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Well if its a Samsung HDD I wouldn't bother partitioning it at all.
Formatting with Fdisk will destroy their weird low level format and only
Samsung can recover it, as many users have found.


Never had that trouble with my Samsung drive.

It applies to the 160 GB one that Aldi were flogging off cheapish last
year, maybe not other Samsungs. Perhaps that's why it was cheap.


john2