I have an old WD IDE drive that has bad sectors and I want to wipe it clean before getting rid of it. I've tried dban, but it sort of stops after a short amount of time during the wipe and I am assuming that one of the bad sectors is at fault.
There is a tool out there called "HDDErase" that supposedly will use an internal IDE command to wipe all data, including those on bad sectors.
You might also try a "low level" format tool such as MAXLLF. Although only very early drives supported actual low level formatting, on newer drives it will wipe all sectors and re-map bad sectors.
The fact that the wiping process hangs suggests that your drive has already used up and re-mapped all of its spare sectors. If a "low-level" format tool fails in the same way, then that is certainly the case.
If it that bad, then you don't want to re-use it anyway. So just take a hammer to it
It is timing out. A traceroute shows the request never leaves my ISP.
It could just be my ISP being a pile of shit as usual, but I've recently stumbled on a few other sites that have the exact same issue. They time out, but everything shows the site is up. However in those those cases, the sites smelled like the sort of thing some retard might try and censor.
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You might also try a "low level" format tool such as MAXLLF. Although only very early drives supported actual low level formatting, on newer drives it will wipe all sectors and re-map bad sectors.
The fact that the wiping process hangs suggests that your drive has already used up and re-mapped all of its spare sectors. If a "low-level" format tool fails in the same way, then that is certainly the case.
If it that bad, then you don't want to re-use it anyway. So just take a hammer to it
http://benodell.co.uk/2006/09/12/low-le ... ting-data/
That or blowing it up, but I have no way of getting dynamite or other explosives.
Blocking or just timing out? I'm pretty sure I'm not in any spam DBs.
It is timing out. A traceroute shows the request never leaves my ISP.
It could just be my ISP being a pile of shit as usual, but I've recently stumbled on a few other sites that have the exact same issue. They time out, but everything shows the site is up. However in those those cases, the sites smelled like the sort of thing some retard might try and censor.
Works here.