On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 10:31, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > 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.
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