On 03/01/2016 07:26 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> On 03/01/2016 05:42 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>      There are adapters that allow you to connect a naked hard drive to a USB
>> port on your running system. This will allow you to futz with the drive
>> without disturbing the existing system or requiring another chassis. It will
>> result is a ready-to-use spare drive.
>>
> Yes. I have several. I think I even have a SATA one. What I wasn't sure
> about was if it would work at the partitioning level. I'll give it a try
> one of these days.
>
>
I have one from Ridgewell that connects via USB. I just went through the 
exercise of scrubbing 6 old Windoze disks and reformatting them with 
gparted. it worked just fine

~~R
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