I am not going down to bit-level analysis, but plug them in and both the gnome disk utility and windows' similar app tell me that the disks are unformatted.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Michael Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>By "entirely unformatted" I presume the disk is full of zeroes? If that is the case, the shipper most likely made a mistake...</p>
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</font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Jan 27, 2012 3:01 PM, "Wolf Halton" <<a href="mailto:wolf.halton@gmail.com" target="_blank">wolf.halton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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I have 4 hard drives sent to me. One of the 4 is entirely unformatted while the other three are formatted (and full of data). <br>Is there any way that a metal detector or some-such DHS TSA device could entirely clear 1 of 4 discs??<br>
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