how not to initialize HD

[Paul Cartwright]

On Mon August 2 2010, Darr wrote:
> > not a matter of getting RID of it, it's GONE, since I redid my
> > partitions.. reclaimed space :)
> > wonder what happens if I press that button NOW..."NO, DON'T DO IT
> >
> > :-0)"
>
> If that's the drive that came in your Dell, no - you didn't get rid of it.
it IS the original drive from Dell..
Linux keeps telling me there are drive errors ( upper part of the screen)
XP never says a thing..

>
> MediaDirect 1 and 2 were installed in hidden partitions that partitioning
> utils simply cannot see.
>
> Depending on who made your drive, you might be able to recover the space
> (seagate=yes; WD=no).
I pressed the mediadirect button, it gives me the mediadirect splash screen, 
then the grub menu.


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Paul Cartwright
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