Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:24:30 +0100, Lisi wrote:

> On Sunday 25 September 2011 14:36:57 Camaleón wrote:
>> No new modern hard disk will come partitioned, they come low-level
>> formatted from factory :-)
> 
> Unless it's external.  

Barracuda disks are not usually external. Seagate uses fancy names for 
external disks such as GoFlex, BlackArmour, RedColibri, BuyThis and so 
on... :-D

> Then it will be clogged up with Windows stuff that it will relinquish
> only very, very reluctantly.  I still haven't got my latest buy
> functioning properly: it almost is, but insists that it is read only. 
> %^*£".  In despair I set the permissions at 777 and is _still_ insists
> that it is read only. :-(  (Nothing on it is even vaguely confidential
> or personal.)  Though it will write distros but not md5sums.

I never buy those pre-boxed disks... I prefer to get an external USB/
Firewire case and put an internal disk on it, they're far better and 
easily to upgrade than the others ;-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón