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Albert, |
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Thanks for the response. |
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"dd" for the lazy -- takes 2 seconds to wipe the top of the drive |
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instead of getting rid of numerous partitions that the manufacturer |
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put on the drive. |
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The disk isn't bad -- if it was then I wouldn't have the ability to |
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recover the files via foremost / scalpel. |
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-james |
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 04:57 +0000, James wrote: |
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>> try www.namesys.com/support.html, and for |
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>> $25 the author of fsck, or a colleague if he is out, will step you |
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>> through it all. |
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> Did you try that? ;) |
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> It's probably a bad disk and you need to take it back... |
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> Not sure why you had to dd/urandom to clear the partition table. Just |
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> simple running fdisk and saving will re-write over what previously |
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> existed in the partition table. |
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