question Hibachi Failure
- Thread starter LunarMist
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Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Without knowing any other details I think I'd probably start by trying to do some data recovery or maybe let a third party SMART tool analyze it since DFT isn't being that helpful.
Damned Hitachi keeps locking up the computer when I try to do anything with files or explorer. I removed the drive from the MB power/SATA. Behavior is the same in an SATA dock, so it is the drive.
Can I wipe the drive somehow without a drive letter? Then I can dispose of it if necessary. (There is only 1.7+ TB of data, but I'd feel better.) Thanks.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
You could always just de-magnetize it, send it in for an RMA and pass its replacement along to someone who would appreciate it.
Chewy509
Wotty wot wot.
Use DBAN to wipe...
http://www.dban.org/
Also, if you need the data off it, most imaging tools (that are boot into their own environment) can handle dying drives by skipping bad blocks (assuming it's not the logic board dying).
http://www.dban.org/
Also, if you need the data off it, most imaging tools (that are boot into their own environment) can handle dying drives by skipping bad blocks (assuming it's not the logic board dying).
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
He won't be able to use DBAN if the computer freezes every time he try to read/write from the drive. De-magnetizing a sealed drive is quite a feat to achieve too. IMO, hammer-time.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Doesn't everyone have a bunch of rare earth magnets sitting around someplace?
Stereodude
Not really a
I do, but are they strong enough to wipe a HD? I like my 1" cube neodium magnet with >100lb strength.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Were I a betting man, I'd guess that if you left one sit on top of the drive for a couple weeks, it would be sufficiently hosed.
It's already unreadable by dint of whatever other aspect of the drive has failed and somehow I doubt that anyone at WD is going to break out the bunny suit and electron microscope to take a hard look at Lunar's data for anything short of national security or kiddie porn in between sorting out the 160 OTHER dump trucks full of bad drives they get every day. I guess it could get magically fixed and shipped off to some data recovery expert just itching to try his favorite software on a random refurbished drive, but the likelihood of that seems pretty damned small to me.
It's already unreadable by dint of whatever other aspect of the drive has failed and somehow I doubt that anyone at WD is going to break out the bunny suit and electron microscope to take a hard look at Lunar's data for anything short of national security or kiddie porn in between sorting out the 160 OTHER dump trucks full of bad drives they get every day. I guess it could get magically fixed and shipped off to some data recovery expert just itching to try his favorite software on a random refurbished drive, but the likelihood of that seems pretty damned small to me.
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
I have some success using Partition Wizard. Usually I wipe the drive by writing all zeros to it.
See if you can boot up Parted Magic without it freezing.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/partedmagic/