[Sussex] HDDs

Steve Dobson steve at dobson.org
Fri Dec 17 11:02:11 UTC 2004


Geoff

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:38:36AM +0000, Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 10:05 +0000, Steve Dobson wrote:
> > Geoff
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 09:34:31AM +0000, Geoffrey Teale wrote:
> > > A sensible approach would be to make the drive a slave and boot of
> > > another one to recover the files you need and then low-level format the
> > > whole disk.
> > 
> > I wouldn't do that just yet, there is important data (photos) on the disk
> > that need to be recovered first.
> >  
> 
> Isn't that what I just suggested?  Tut, tut Dobbo.. you need new
> glasses ;-)

Sorry, yes it was - I just saw the "low-level format" bit at first glance.
I'll book time with my optician :-)

Steve




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