Broken Harddrive, USB enclosure: I want to wipe it, but windows can’t recognise it!?
My laptop harddrive, connected to my desktop via USB enclosure. Enclosure is recognised, but the hard drive is not. Anyway to make sure all contents are deleted. Like, a program to sniff USB mass storage devices and format or repair???
Thankyou
It needs to be returned to the OEM (DELL) as I got the new laptop harddrive under warranty. So destroying it is not an option.
The disk *can* be read, but it only works 1 in a 100 times… so not really.
I used R-Studio to get a couple of files from th e disk, but it took 20+ hours to get them and it has to be returned in 4 days, so not long enough - hence the deletion method.
If the hard drive is broken then its unlikely that any utility will recover it. If you want peace of mind then a rather large hammer and a long pointy nail will make it ‘read safe”.
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:37 am
why have you tried to connect it to your pc does the laptop have a floppy disk drive if so why not use a boot disk to format the drive Madboot lets you fdisk, format, and install the OS you can get one from http://www.madboot.com
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October 2nd, 2009 at 3:54 am
If the hard drive is broken then its unlikely that any utility will recover it. If you want peace of mind then a rather large hammer and a long pointy nail will make it ‘read safe”.
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October 2nd, 2009 at 4:40 am
does the laptop have a floppy disk drive if so why not use a boot disk to format the drive if the hard drive is broken thats it all your files are on that so no one can get them
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