On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:39 -0600, Christopher Howard wrote:
> I got ahold of an old pc that has a bunch of some one elses personal
> stuff on it.  I decided to wip the drive and got a utility called DBAN
> off source forge.  It's suposed to scrambe the contents.  I used it, but
> the log file said it didn't do anything, it was too short a period of
> time anyways I noticed.  Now the BIOS doesn't see the drive.  I had a
> similar problem when trying to do a low level format on an old Connor
> drive.  I assumed that the company that bought Connor had the formater
> rigged.  Some how something on the disk was changed, it's not trash, I
> still want to use it.  Does anyone know anything about this sort of
> situation?  It's a western digital caviar drive, 6.4GB.  I've already
> tried manualy entering in the c/h/s.  The bios acts like there is no
> disk hooked up.

OK, I feel stupid now.  I had checked all the cables, they were fine.
The drive is in a removable drive mount and it wasn't pushed in all the
way.  It was never wiped.  The old Windows system booted up fine.  I'll
go away now...