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Old 03-14-2007, 11:58 PM
Arno Wagner
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Default Re: Worth writing zeros to my used hard drives?

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> writes:
>> Do I have to repeat it for you: *They won't show with only writing*.


> Yes, thanks, that helped.


As usual, Folkert is wrong. They may or may not show up as "pending"
in the SMART attributes, but after writing they will show up as
reallocated defects in SMART. They will not before if the drive
failed to read them.

Arno


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