[ale] OT: Erasing a toasted drive

[Geoffrey]

John Wells wrote:
> Geoffrey said:
> 
>>I would try to boot from a cd and attempt to fdisk, reformat and then
>>rewrite the drive.  If it's totally toast, no luck, but if you can fdisk
>>the drive and start writing stuff to it, leave it over night and see how
>>far it goes.  Do the bad block check when you format it.  That could
>>well take over night or longer.  All depends on how paranoid you are.
> 
> 
> I want to go this route, but I've lost my laptop IDE to regular IDE
> convertor I bought some 6 years ago...searched high and low last night
> with no luck.
> 
> Anyone know where I can pick one of these up quickly? I'm in Greensboro
> currently, so ATL-only options not viable. I'm off to check CompUSA's
> site, but if you have any other suggestions let me know.

I've got two, got them both at Frys.  I'd be glad to send you one.

> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
> 
> 
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Until later, Geoffrey