| Author | Message | ||
     Jimmy Weg Username: jw Registered: 7-2006 |
I attached a 500GB SATA drive to my Vista Ultimate 64 system and opened the disk in WinHex 15.1 SR-6. I ran WinHex as Administrator. I wanted to Fill Disk Sectors (with 0x00s), but received an Error #21, "Cannot write to hard disk 0. Access is denied." I clicked Ignore, and WinHex proceeded to report that it was wiping the disk. Upon completeion, I shut down WinHex and rebooted. I then noted that the disk was not wiped entirely. For example, the boot sector remained, as did data in several sectors among the first few hundred. I then wiped the drive successfully in an XP system, and I presume that this is a Vista issue. I'd like to know what Vista did to prevent WinHex from wiping the entire disk, and whether there's a way to avoid this in the future. Thanks. | ||
| Dan Mares Username: dmares Registered: N/A |
i have not tried this with vista, but in some instances in the past, i have seen that the OS, will replace the partition table, and in vistas case, possibly the entire first track after the wiping process. Although you successfully wiped it with XP, it sometimes appears that the OS knows or assumes this disk should have a valid partition table, and before the system shuts down, or releases the wiped disk, it replaces valid partition and boot sector data onto the drive. to check to see if this is the case, start the wiping process, then about mid drive, pull the plug, and go see if the first part of the drive is in fact wiped. | ||
| Jimmy Weg Username: jw Registered: 7-2006 |
Thanks, Dan. The partition table was wiped and remained wiped after reboot. The boot sector did reappear after wiping/rebooting. I did not, however, check the disk before I rebooted, so I should repeat the process and see what I find. | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann Username: admin Registered: 1-2001 |
This is most likely the limitation that is mentioned on the main product web page (near the bottom) since for Vista support is announced on that page. I would have expected a little more text when you got the error message, however, suggesting to unmount and delete partitions on that disk. (Also, are you sure you it is hard disk 0 that you wish to wipe?) | ||
| Jimmy Weg Username: jw Registered: 7-2006 |
Thanks, Stefan. It is Disk 0. The added SATA disk became Disk 0, and my system (SAS) disk, which usually is 0, became 1. (Had I wiped my system disk, I would have been too busy restoring the disk to have written ;-)) |