[chbot] OT HDD question

[Volker Kuhlmann]

On Tue 06 Mar 2012 14:48:44 NZDT +1300, Mark Atherton wrote:

> thoughts ?

Well you couldn't turn it into a paperweight any further, so try one and
go for it.

What program do you use to issue those ATA commands (there shouldn't be
any difference between PATA and SATA here)?

There seem to principally be two options:

1) Crack the password (which can't be that difficult, given what some
tools online are promising)

2) disk harakiri (with those ATA commands)

Given that you don't care about the data the only difference between the
two is the longer (maybe) runtime of 2.

Volker

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