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Recent content by user1kostya
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Best way to make sure data is gone before selling HDD?
If you're technically inclined, you can do things manually via KNOPPIX. Just boot into it, and then run dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=64M count=10000000 This will zero out /dev/hda rather quickly. Of course, you need to be sure that /dev/hda is the drive you want. Another linux program...- user1kostya
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Has anyone noticed a lot of Maxtor HDD failures ?
I think that indeed that was a horrible batch of drives made. I had one 200Gb maxtor develop bad sectors after 4 weeks after purchase, at which point it was replaced by a new one. Then, a year later, two such drives started to develop bad sectors within 2 weeks from each other. One of these...- user1kostya
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
