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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