21 Dec
2001
21 Dec
'01
05:22
* JW (jw@centraltexasit.com) [011220 20:14]:
At 07:34 PM 12/20/2001 -0800, you wrote:
* Robert Thyberg (thyberg@tritoncomputer.com) [011220 17:51]:
All IBM recommends is to zero (literally) it out or get professional help. Their DOS program has a utility to reformat with zeroes!
Do any of you know of a program which might crack this open??
No No No!
He's looking for a way to extract the damaged data, not for a way to finish it off.
He said the the IBM tech told him to run some dos tool that replaces what's left of the filesystem with zeros; that's exactly what the dd does...see the quote above. -- -ckm