Tim wrote: > You could, of course, try running Windows on the drive. It seems > excellent at destroying data without even trying.
i agree. that was one of good things about mfm drives. running low-level formatting after they crashed and would not take a regular format. it got to a point that when ever i had a system crash, i would not bother with regular formatting, just pull out oem disk, run low-level to insure that bad sectors were written to table and the regular format. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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