Re: Reformat/salvage old LaCie drive?
On 17 April 2011 19:55, Brian Flaherty <bxf4@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have an old LaCie 500 GB hard drive. I opened it up last night and see
> that it is two 250 ATA/133 hard drives: one master, one slave on a single
> IDE ribbon connector. (Hope my words are right.) It is connected to my
> laptop via USB. (recent Debian Squeeze install on a Lenovo X201)
>
> How do I reformat and test if the drive is reliable?
Don't. It's 8/9/10 year old technology which has already started to
tell you it's going south. Just bin it.
Jonathan
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