DD bootable media sees one HD as "super floppy"?

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Hi,

I have three hard disk drives in my system. One has the Primary partition with a bootable MBR.

The other two disks are identical (same size and model) but one is shown as "basic MBR" and the other is shown as "super floppy". I do not see the option of changing the "super floppy" drive to a "basic MBR" drive. I wish to use both of the other drives for backups.

I have seen in posts where this issue can be caused by Acronis DD not having the drivers for a particular DD. This can not be the case here because the drives are identical.

I don't have the option of running DD in windows because it interferes with GRUB and I am OK with running the bootable media disk.

Thank You
Tom

Thu, 08/11/2011 - 04:19
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It's possible the MBR is corrupted or missing on the drive. See this KB article for details. Note that cleaning the drive will delete any existing partitions.

Thu, 08/11/2011 - 05:02