On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 18:08:44 +0200 Vincent Voois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Johan Sch wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Troubleshooter.exe in dos have this function that alows to re-initialise a > > harddisk that can no longer be touched by partition magic and fisk in dos as well > > as fdisk in linux. If I understand it correctly it zero's out partition table and > > the whole disk. On a 80Gig drive this takes whole night. > > > > For the disk . it is something like throw it away. > > > > In the past I was able to re-use such drives and still uses them after this > > operation. Now all the partition utilities is happy to touch it again. > > > > Does such a utility exist in linux. > > > > Kindly please may I then have the name. > > > > Thanks > > I doubt you can download it.... I had such a classified utility at Defense at my > fingertips called S.O.S. (In english it would > be called D.C.S. :Disc Cleaning System). > It sweeped bootsector tables, all disc-sectors (three times using a fixed byte the > first two sweeps and then a random byte the > last sweep) and even mangled with the drive firmware stating all drive area was bad > (if this was possible to do then) making the > drive totally unusable. > It was a bootable flop that did the job more than well. > But i suppose you still want to use your harddrive after the sweep. > > Vincent. ******* Ye . for sure. The point is is trying to restore it to use-ability. -- Johan Sch Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning
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