[plug] Hard Drive cannot read ANY IDEAS?

[Rob Davies]

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 21:27, Arie Hol wrote:
> At 08:23 PM 05-01-2004 +0800, you wrote:
> >Evening all
> >
> >A little curly one, while doing upgrades for friends I was give 6 newish
> >looking Seagae and WD 10gb and 8gb respectivelly. Problem being they
> >cannot be read or used by any OS linux included. Just a wondering if some
> >one has a solution to free these little buggers as they could be very
> >usefull in workstation and firewall + gateway machines?
> >
> 
> Try using a Disk Eraser available from the manufacturers of the drives, the
> eraser will write either all 0's or all 1's over all the existing data
> including the partition tables - will also remove/repair bad sectors (if
> they are not caused by physical damage) - should bring them up like new !

I have done this for the Segates, we had a 50% success rate.The ones
that did not I noticed that while being initialised by Disk Wizard it
was being read at 16bit lba where as the successful ones where 32bit
lba.
-- 
Rob Davies
rob at rjdarts.com

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