Comments on: Erasing old hard drives http://www.hojohnlee.com/hacks/2006/07/23/erasing-old-hard-drives/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:14:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Bob http://www.hojohnlee.com/hacks/2006/07/23/erasing-old-hard-drives/#comment-3394 Tue, 26 Dec 2006 15:43:48 +0000 http://www.hojohnlee.com/hacks/2006/07/23/erasing-old-hard-drives/#comment-3394 Hi. I would be very grateful if you could help me. I have a hp pavilion zt3000 notebook. When I switched it on recently it said '1720-SMART Hard Drive detects imminent failure (failing attr : 02)'. So I tried replacing the hard drive with an old IBM think pad harddisk. However when I put the IBM hard drive into the HP its not working. The pc boots up to the screen where it says 'start widnows in safe mode' start windows with command prompt' etc. When I press enter it starts booting up again. Would you please be able to help. Hi.
I would be very grateful if you could help me. I have a hp pavilion zt3000 notebook. When I switched it on recently it said ‘1720-SMART Hard Drive detects imminent failure (failing attr : 02)’.

So I tried replacing the hard drive with an old IBM think pad harddisk. However when I put the IBM hard drive into the HP its not working. The pc boots up to the screen where it says ’start widnows in safe mode’ start windows with command prompt’ etc. When I press enter it starts booting up again.

Would you please be able to help.

]]> by: Anna http://www.hojohnlee.com/hacks/2006/07/23/erasing-old-hard-drives/#comment-1329 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:02:38 +0000 http://www.hojohnlee.com/hacks/2006/07/23/erasing-old-hard-drives/#comment-1329 I completely agree with you that it's important to erase data on old hard drives. My mother received a call about three months ago and the person who called told her that they had bought a hard drive at a flea market and that my mother's name, address, phone number, social security number and some credit card info were on it. The funny thing is, the hard drive was from a computer she had donated to charity, so how it would up at a flea market, we'll never know. It's a lesson learned though. No matter who you're giving your computer or hard drive to, make sure you really erase the data, and just deleting it isn't enough. We tried some free programs on the web, but found out that the info was still retrievable after we used them so we finally purchased <a href="http://www.stompsoft.com/drivewasher.html" rel="nofollow">Drive Washer</a> from a company called <a>StompSoft</a>. It is the only program that was able to provide us with what we needed. I completely agree with you that it’s important to erase data on old hard drives. My mother received a call about three months ago and the person who called told her that they had bought a hard drive at a flea market and that my mother’s name, address, phone number, social security number and some credit card info were on it. The funny thing is, the hard drive was from a computer she had donated to charity, so how it would up at a flea market, we’ll never know. It’s a lesson learned though. No matter who you’re giving your computer or hard drive to, make sure you really erase the data, and just deleting it isn’t enough. We tried some free programs on the web, but found out that the info was still retrievable after we used them so we finally purchased Drive Washer from a company called StompSoft. It is the only program that was able to provide us with what we needed.

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