Re: using the badblocks to wipe a drive

it doesn't kill the drive, just the data thats on it (right from head 0,
cylinder 0 sector 0).

just fdisk the thing, create the partitions as needed, save and format with
the appropriate tool. its that easy.

On Saturday 21 October 2006 20:59, eric wrote:
> Assuming someone runs that command, and even kills block zero. Is there
> any way to get the drive working again as a hard drive? Obviously the data
> is gone at that point. Is the solution just to run it on hda1, hda2, etc.
> instead of just had?
>
> _eric
>
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