Re: Failing secondary hard drive

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From: Rock (rock_at_comcast.nospam.net)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 21:46:52 -0700

CS wrote:

> 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.

He's talking about an external 40gb hard drive.

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