The most incredible SUPER virus.

[stevenamills]

PCTek9,

Thanks for a thoughtful, intelligent post. I'm sure it will be of great use to many of us.

 

[JW The Computer Guy]

BIOS virus maybe, did you re-flash the BIOS?

 

[i.t-works]

PCTek9,
Thanks for the learning experience, that why I love reading technibble! Keep up the great work!

 

[iptech]

So was this an "incredible SUPER virus" or just a plain old $40 hard disk failure?

 

[PcTek9]

For those of you who have been following this, see my new post under FYEO.
I was able to use hdparm in linux to (below) level format the drive and erase the cylinder that even stored mfg info to fix all this nonsense, but... leaving it in an unfrozen state, caused the drive to autolock with the red flashing screen requesting a pw before the drive could be used. I now have a much easier solution to all of this posted under FYEO.