- From: Jared Liebl <liebljs AT gmail.com>
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- Subject: [MLUG] Re: OFF TOPIC - Photocopier Hard Drive Security
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:22:46 -0500
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Just for those who might be interested - MS Windows XP says that there
is one, 80gb partition of unknown type on the copier's hard-drive.
Puppy Linux says that there are 12 partitions of unknown type, and I
can't manage to mount any of them and see any data on them. Maybe
someone smarter than me could do it, though.
From the reading that I've done, a newly formatted hard drive does
leave the copier in an unusable state (although I haven't tried it yet).
Apparently a factory-authorized technician knows how to perform an
"initialization" of a copier hard-drive. The manufacturer doesn't want
anyone else to do it, though. In the words of one forum poster
responding to a similar problem ". . . we do not want our customers to
damage their printers or electrocute themselves."
Rather than continue my stick-poking, I think that I'll call the leasing
agency and try to badger them into cooperating with me on this issue.
Jared
On 7/14/2010 5:36 PM, Scott Simonson wrote:
I'm going to get my EIDE -> USB adapter from home and try it out.<<<<
Those are handing little gadgets.
Thanks,
Scott
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