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...