A friend of mine recently gave me his old computer, and before I did anything with it I used dban 1.0.6 on a floppy, DoD short method.
The computer had WinXP Pro on it before, but I planned on installing Debian Linux afterwards. However, since running the wipe nothing seems to be able to read the drive at all [not even dban]. Hardware is as follows:
AMD Athlon CPU, not sure the specific model but it's 800mhz
256mb RAM
Maxtor D740X-6L, 20GB 7200 RPM ATA133 drive
As for specific error messages, when the Debian disk partitioner comes up, it says "no partiotionable media found". I booted with a MS-DOS floppy and fdisk can't see the drive either. I even made a MaxBlast 4 bootable disk and it couldn't see the drive.
Right now I'm using a really old 6gb drive in there, but I'd really like to put this 20gb one back in there. Any help would be appreciated.
The computer had WinXP Pro on it before, but I planned on installing Debian Linux afterwards. However, since running the wipe nothing seems to be able to read the drive at all [not even dban]. Hardware is as follows:
AMD Athlon CPU, not sure the specific model but it's 800mhz
256mb RAM
Maxtor D740X-6L, 20GB 7200 RPM ATA133 drive
As for specific error messages, when the Debian disk partitioner comes up, it says "no partiotionable media found". I booted with a MS-DOS floppy and fdisk can't see the drive either. I even made a MaxBlast 4 bootable disk and it couldn't see the drive.
Right now I'm using a really old 6gb drive in there, but I'd really like to put this 20gb one back in there. Any help would be appreciated.