On Sunday 14 September 2003 03:30 am, Charlie M. wrote: > Depends on the drive and the circumstances. A year ago a friend acquired > a 13 GB Maxtor drive that was about a year old. It had been data > storage for someone she knew, the data files were all encrypted and > couldn't be wiped. Format wouldn't touch it, "Invalid partition table" > and the drive was at that point worthless so what did she have to lose? > Nobody knew the encryption key. I hooked it to my system with no drives > connected but that one and used the low level format in the BIOS to > recondition the drive. Took just over 4 hours, but it worked. Then I > installed Mandrake 9.0 on it for her.
I have a question here - if its partition table related, wouldn't fdisk be able to handle it? I'm just asking here, I really don't know. I know its helped with a lot of dual-booting drives here when Windoze fscked something or the other up and we couldn't do anything else with it. -- /\ Dark><Lord \/
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