On Thursday April 1 2004 01:47 am, Kendrick-LUG wrote:

> western digital puts out a install disk with utilities just for this
> purpose. 

Many's the time I've had to explain to a computer owner that because they were 
using a non-standard driver to mount their hard drive, NONE of their data is 
recoverable.  We can re-use the drive if we install it properly and do a 
low-level format.

Fortunately that's not an issue with Linux.