Re: Failing secondary hard drive

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From: CS (nomail_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:57:23 -0500

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:45:04 -0700, beetle
<beetle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I had an old (as yet unused) copy of SpinRite v5.0 around and so I upgraded
>to v6.0. The configuration of SpinRite was tested on a working IOMEGA ZIP
>drive using the Cypress DUSE 4.2 USB driver from pocketec and it exercised
>the drive as expected. When the DATASTOR was plugged into the same
>configuration for a test, SpinRite hung attempting to read sector zero. It
>would not respond until the drive was powered off (same behaviour as Windows
>during bootup).
>
>If the drive is in an totally inaccessible state such as this, I guess my
>question becomes: "If a removable hard drive is going to be taken in for
>warranty service or exchange and it cannot be addressed from any
>user-interface hardware level, how does one ensure that it is wiped clean to
>remove any potentially sensitive information that may be accessible by other
>means?"

The condition of the removable Zip drive has nothing at all to do with
data which resides on the removable media. (Zip disks) Why would you
send the media along with the drive for repair? You did state above
- "If a removable hard drive......"

As for a non removable hard drive, if it can't be accessed at all and
has to be sent in for repair, you will either have to trust the repair
facility or not have the drive repaired.

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