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From: plains!person@uunet.UU.NET (Brett G. Person)
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Subject: Re: removing Stoned from harddisks (PC)
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Date: 7 Jun 90 07:16:23 GMT
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I had a friend call me who told me that Stoned actually damaged the
media on the hard drive.  He said they lost a full ten Meg. He took
the drive through a low-level + dos format, and only wound up with
20Meg on a 30 meg disk.

Now, I know that a piece of software isn't supposed to physically
destroy media, but he said that the tech from the disk company claimed
that Stoned actually does destroy the media permanantly.  I don't
pretend to know everything about the pc, do I told him I'd ask here.
My bet is that the drive was either mis-labled as a 30 meg, or somehow
partitioned wrong.

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Brett G. Person
North Dakota State University
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