On Sunday 04 November 2001 15:21, Darren Wyn Rees wrote: > My little box crashed yesterday. The hard disk started making > a repetitive whining, metallic noise.
Welcome to the world of dieing IBM as experenced by me 8 times. > The hard disk is an IBM 40GB. Not sure of the model, but it's > only about 4 months old, so I should be able to return it under > the guarantee. Well if it's the 7k2 rpm drives GPX75's are notoriously bad for reliablty & I've found that GPX60's need to be in the direct flow of air from a fan other wise they tend to over heat. > What is the best way to WIPE data on the disk ? IBM ain't gonna go in for data recovery, so you'd probably get away with just a format of the partitions. If you're paraniod about it try: * Boot up on a floppy * Delete & reparition using diffrent partiton sizes * Format the partions * Delete all the partitions Ani