wrote:
> I did:
> "Erase, wipe current object" and the entire drive
> was erased (took most of
> the day!). I did not try Secure wipe.
On contemporary HW, that should not be the case. When
you boot DFSEE from the CD or boot floppy, it should
give you the option of using the Ultra DMA drivers.
(This may even be the default.) To date, I have not
done these procedures on anything larger than a 120G
drive, but when I Wipe an entire drive, or Clone it,
this never takes more than 2 hours, and I think it is
more like something between 1 and 2 hours. Unless you
are working under DOD standards for some reason, the
Secure Wipe option is overkill, and would definitely
cost you a lot more time.
>> I
> >>wonder if there is something proprietary about
> this drive, a Maxtor, as
> >>compared to the 80 GB Western Digital USB drive?
With the proviso that I'm probably the least technical
person in the room, I'd have to say I doubt that very
much.
Something has been overlooked here. If you want to
come to the next Help Desk, while Steve or Steven are
ironing out some of my longstanding issues, I bet I
could resolve this one for you. There is only one
partitioning problem I've personally encountered that
I couldn't overcome with the standard tools, and that
seems to be a fairly esoteric one. (This, without
really understanding much of the underlying theory or
rules !) In the meantime, I agree with what Ray said.
You probably want to set this stuff while the drive
is hooked up directly to the IDE bus, not over a USB
connection.
Jordan
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