

Of course, as my luck would have it, at some point in the process the power blinked - yes, the laptop had a battery, and yes it was plugged into the AC outlet, but for some reason even with all that so-called constant power applied it was enough to cause the secure ATA erase to skip or something and suddenly the whole process crapped out. I have an older Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" drive, 250GB capacity, model ST9250315AS, and in the recent past I was in the middle of doing a secure erase on it (using Parted Magic's secure ATA erase tool). Been a while since I've peeked around these parts but I figured it couldn't hurt to ask.
