Dynamic Drive Overlay removal
Steve
Drive Overlay (DDO) on it. I have copied all the data across. It's going to
be a second hard drive in a spare P3 machine, so any DDO will not be
required.
Trouble is, most of the wiping tools on the boot CD that I am using to clean
it do not see it because of the DDO. Any ideas how to remove it?
Jaimie Vandenbergh
Just repartition the drive, that'll clear everything off it.
Cheers - Jaimie
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Rob Morley
Boot a Linux CD and run
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
to wipe the MBR (assuming the disk is connected as the master drive on
the first IDE channel, otherwise could be hdb, hdc, hdd, with some
Linux versions it will appear as /dev/sda etc.).
The disk will now appear empty and you can partition and format it as
you want. If you want to wipe all data on the disk rather than just
making it look empty you can omit bs=512 count=1 and it will carry on
until the entire disk has been overwritten with zeros.
Just make sure the disk you want to wipe is the only one that's
connected at the time you run it.
Raj Kundra
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Why give complicated advise when simple one already given will do the job?
Linux is not easy for everyone to use.
Jaimie Vandenbergh
It's still a fine answer, and depending on what Steve has lying around
might even be the quicker route.
Also, dd'ing /dev/zero over the whole drive is guaranteed to clear any
*really* stubborn problems. And some of those drive compressors were
pretty troublesome to remove.
Cheers - Jaime
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J G Miller
> Why give complicated advise when simple one already given will do the
> job?
Why complain when somebody goes to the trouble of providing a
detailed explanation on how to get the job done?
Raj Kundra
"J G Miller" <mil...@yoyo.ORG> wrote in message
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average user.
The drive is already fitted in a PC, so just needs repartitioning under
windows or dos.
J G Miller
> I am not complaining
Well it sounded like you were complaining. If that was
not your intention then I am sorry for my misunderstanding.
> just pointing out the other method is very easy for
> average user.
So the average user can follow that advice.
Nobody is forcing the average user or you to read or use the more
complicated method.
> The drive is already fitted in a PC, so just needs repartitioning under
> windows or dos.
Or GNU/Linux or BSD. ;)
Rob Morley
"Raj Kundra" <raj@REM0VE THISkundracomputers.co.uk> wrote:
> Why give complicated advise when simple one already given will do the
> job? Linux is not easy for everyone to use.
He said "most of the wiping tools on the boot CD that I am using
to clean it do not see it because of the DDO", I explained how to not
only fix the funny MBR but also wipe the entire disk if required, using
a single command. To me that seems rather simple really. The
DOS/Windows alternative might be to remove the existing partition and
create a new one (assuming that the chosen tool didn't choke on the odd
partition ID) format that and wipe the free space on it - is that
really a simpler solution than the one I suggested?
Dean
I agree. The best thing to do, assuming you aren't trying to recover data
from the drive, is wipe the parition table. IME some partitioning tools,
(when deleting all and creating a new partition scheme) do not produce the
same results had they been presented with a clean partition table to begin
with. Good advice IMO.
Mike Tomlinson
<St...@nowhere.com> writes
>Trouble is, most of the wiping tools on the boot CD that I am using to clean
>it do not see it because of the DDO. Any ideas how to remove it?
Boot from a floppy and do fdisk /MBR.
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