Trouble With Drive.....

[Ric Moore]

On 07/28/2012 10:50 PM, Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote:
> I am having a problem with a hard drive.
> I currently have a standard install of Ubuntu 12.04 on my Dell Inspirion
> laptop, I have acquired a drive from a computer that is 320 GB it's a
> Western Digital with lots of corporate data on it that I must remove. I
> have mounted this drive and it doesn't allow me to access the
> information. I can see the Western Digital's "portion" of the drive,
> which is small, and apparently it protects the drive in some fashion, it
> seems that it might have locked me out of the access loop, while I can
> see the small WD portion of the drive, the giant 320GB part is not
> visible nor accessible, can anyone help me with this problem? If I'm not
> explaining this right, I'll try to clarify it better....

You can't just re-format the entire drive? Maybe they don't want you 
mining their information. Free drive, re-format. Got any more like that, 
I'll take one and ask no questions. :) Ric



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