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G0TEZ > PCTECH 03.08.10 23:29l 36 Lines 1244 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 40462-GB7FCR
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Subj: Re: wiping HDD ?
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From: G0TEZ@GB7FCR.#16.GBR.EU
To : PCTECH@WW
Hi Dave.
My HDD is an IDE, 160GB, still 77% unused so I am not rushing to change
it.
Th m'board has both SATA and IDE connections. I wasn't too sure what SATA
was so stuck with IDE when I built it three years ago.
After readin wha t you say about SATA drives, I will be very careful now.
> Another sticky situation rears its head, with the newer SATA H/D's as
> against the now almost obsolete but wonderful to use, IDE drives. The Sata
> has a partitioned information sector of about 84k, that does not get
> erased with a format?
> If one gets to corrupt this, I then find that the H/D is almost useless
> for further work. Sometimes with these tricky SATA's, this small
> partition insists on being C drive, making ones installation D drive?
> Because of this I trashed a new 500 gig drive and put in an IDE,
> on the only one IDE socket, now common on most Mother Boards/Main Boards.
> The burner stayed as a Sata however!
> Maybe we have an IBM expert to sort me out.
>
> 73 - de Dave, VK2AWZ @ VK2DOT
73 - Ian, G0TEZ
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