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Re: hard drive problem

From: Shane J Pearson (shanejpnetspace.net.au)
Date: Tue Aug 01 2006 - 20:16:38 CDT


Travers,

On 2006.08.01, at 11:23 AM, Travers Buda wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 20:10:23 -0400
> Chris <chrismcoearthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>> If all is
>> lost, you can wipe the disk with BCWipe (www.jetico.com) then test
>> again with Spinrite. This has recovered several disks for me.
>
> Wipe it with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0c count=10

You suggest only wiping the first 5k bytes of a drive?