Tom on 29 Jul 2009 19:50:51 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Hard Drive warranty RMA


On Sunday 26 July 2009 13:33:00 TuskenTower wrote:
> Apparently, there might be something wrong with the disk, fsck.hfsplus
> spat this out in the end.
> ** The volume Time Machine Backups could not be repaired after 3 attempts.
>
> I can't mount the file system RW either:
> [804012.270353] hfs: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted, running
> fsck.hfsplus is recommended.  mounting read-only.
>
> I'm going to do some Googling for a partition wiping utility.  Anyone
> have any knowledge about these tools?
>
> thanks,
> Amul
>
dban (www.dban.org) works well.  I just wiped 2 machines I'm sending back to 
IT at work with it.

HTH,
Tom
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