-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 September 14, 2003 08:31 am, 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.
Maybe it would have Dark Lord. The problem was the original 6.5 GB drive in my friend's system was being replaced with the 13 GB, plus I was adding a new 80 GB. At least the fdisk that runs in GNU/Linux. Or disk-drake. Not the Windows 98 SE fdisk, which she needed (at the time) to be installed first. I tried it according to my journal notes. I hadn't at that time realized that I could use the diskdrake portion of a Mandrake installation to do almost anything I liked to the drives connected to the motherboard; and then install from there. I just re-checked my notes, it was actually a bit over 2 years ago that I installed the drives in her system. Time flies when you're havin' fun...;-) I can honestly say I shouldn't have bothered fighting with it since the last time I spoke to her (Friday) she was asking how to recover the space, since she hasn't booted Windows for "months and months!" I don't have any excuses other than the fact that I will always call myself a "gnubie" no matter how many years I use Mandrake or whatever distribution I'm beating to death at the moment. <g> Still learning. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-8mdk 11:55:09 up 19:48, 1 user, load average: 0.84, 0.65, 0.51 FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #31 A: Chicken Teriyaki. Q: What is the name of the world's oldest kamikaze pilot? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ZK55G11CaRuZZSIRAo7hAJsEl3HJmxGFRg1D0QKqZeBUoBzS1QCfc1C8 2ytJmB59H5AUwTF1PkdJRig= =3TFY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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