Re: Argh, lost two notebook drives !!!!!

Hi!

When it rains it pours!

Uh-oh.

I thinik she made an assumption that the small brown package
containing the 100GB hard disk was empty (the drive would be
between the foam packaging) so I think she threw it away because
I thoroughly chedked my apartment and it's not here.

I think it's time for a new cleaner, time to hurry to the trash collection
area, or time to suggest that a replacement drive be provided by the person
who threw the first one away. I'd be pretty mad about losing a 100GB hard
drive!

So, is it true that I can't even reformat the drive -- that as long as
I don't know the hard drive password the drive is unusable?

Do you know the model # or manufacturer? If you do, downloading the drive
manual might tell you a lot. It should be possible to reset the drive to a
fresh state if the password isn't known. That's one of the big selling
points behind the idea of full drive hardware-based encryption...simply
reset the drive and it's like nothing was ever written to it.

I am inclined going with the lower end 5400rpm drive. The computer
won't be used for much more than office apps. I usually don't bumble
along this bad but I guess this has to happen once in a while to keep
me humble.

I'm not sure I'd call a 5400 RPM drive "low end". In a desktop,
certainly...but in the laptop world there is the 4200 RPM drive and that is
certainly "low end".

William


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