Re: [newbie] re-initialise drive

2004-09-06 Thread Raffaele BELARDI 
Johan Sch wrote:
Ye . for sure. The point is is trying to restore it to use-ability.
Why not using linux's fdisk command line utility?
I did it in the past with a Maxtor drive, I used the Maxtor 
troubleshooter (PowerMax.exe) to wipe the disk, then rewrote the 
partition table with linux's fdisk.

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[newbie] re-initialise drive

2004-09-05 Thread Johan Sch 
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
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Re: [newbie] re-initialise drive

2004-09-05 Thread Johan Sch 
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.
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Ye . for sure. The point is is trying to restore it to use-ability.
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