I don't think I have ever had a drive fail in a way in
which the hidden partition would have been of any use at all had
there been one.
I had an 80-gigabyte Maxtor anda nother 300 GB Maxtor
both fail without warning by just simply refusing to read or
write any data. It was as if you had wiped the platters clean. I
suspect that the electronics module failed because you could
still hear the drive motor running normally and you could also
hear the heads move if you tried to check the disk. Had there
been a hidden partition, it would have gone away, also so that
drive would still just be the warm expensive brick it became.
I think those hidden partitions are only good if the
corruption is due to software issues.
Martin
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