[Novalug] Hardqare (?) Question : Wipe Geekstick?

Daniel Chen seven.steps@gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 17:22:59 EST 2008


On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Wait...are you saying there no files on them, but they claim to have
> some large amount of data in use?  If so, they're dead.  I've had drives
> like that, and formatting doesn't fix it.  GParted claimed there was a
> bunch of data still.  I was told that it probably reached the
> max-read/write cycles, and that if one spot goes bad from that on the
> drive, it's like a matrix...that whole row and column goes.
>

Depends on the drive and the firmware.
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