[PLUG] Scrubbing hard drive

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Apr 30 22:48:10 UTC 2021


On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, wes wrote:

> we would need to know all the steps you took to make the changes to see if
> there are any possible points where something could have gone wrong.

Wes,

I explained them in the original post: starting with the lowest partition on
the list I deleted each one, wrote the changes to disk (or so I thought) and
shut down the system.

> I've seen SSDs store data just fine, but refuse to accept partition table
> changes.

This is a HDD, not an SSD.

> I've seen one partitioning utility fail to make changes while another one
> succeeded.

It worked on this system when purcased many years ago.

Rich



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