Format Hard drive on a Ricoh MPC-2500

[russmacman]

Can anyone tell me how to Format Hard drive on a Ricoh MPC-2500? Need to send back to a leasing co. and want it wiped. Thanks. Russ

[Eric1968]

Re: Format Hard drive on a Ricoh MPC-2500

SP5-832-001

[russmacman]

Re: Format Hard drive on a Ricoh MPC-2500

Thanks for the reply. But I don't know what the numbers refer to. Is it a maint. mode, or could you explain the steps. Thanks

[TonerMunkeh]

Re: Format Hard drive on a Ricoh MPC-2500

Formatting it won't completely wipe the drive. Replace it with a new one and then smash the shit out of the old one with a big hammer. And record it to put on Youtube. Data security and stress relief at the same time!

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[Gift]

Re: Format Hard drive on a Ricoh MPC-2500

yummy, some spam again

As they said there is no proper formatting function available in service mode but I'd say it's good enough since ricoh seems to use quite some non-usual file system. Once I tried to rip off some data of a ricoh MFC harddrice (just to see what's possible) and I kinda got nothing out of it.

Need to send back to a leasing co. and want it wiped.

Why don't you get in touch with your service then? It's their job to take care wiping the customers data if a machine get's back from the field.

[russmacman]

Re: Format Hard drive on a Ricoh MPC-2500

I am the service. We sold them a Kyocera, and I don't know how to format for the customer. Sending back to Leasing Co., and customer watched the big news story on copier hard drives....

[rthonpm]

Re: Format Hard drive on a Ricoh MPC-2500

You mean that story where the guy who was explaining how copier drives keep customer data just happens to sell software to wipe drives???

[russmacman]

Re: Format Hard drive on a Ricoh MPC-2500

Oh yea. Have been selling so many more data security kits. Can anyone give me info on a service way to format. And yes I know that my 12 gauge would fix it, but i need it to work when the wholesale guy powers it up..

[teebee1234]

Re: Format Hard drive on a Ricoh MPC-2500

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[femaster]

Re: Format Hard drive on a Ricoh MPC-2500

Oh yea. Have been selling so many more data security kits. Can anyone give me info on a service way to format. And yes I know that my 12 gauge would fix it, but i need it to work when the wholesale guy powers it up..

Pull the hard drive out of the machine and slave it up to a PC. Either do a full format in the PC, or run a tool on it like DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke).

Re-install into the copier and power it up. It will take a bit longer to boot than before as it has to load everything off the SD cards instead of the hard drive. The copier should automatically reformat the drive as it will be in an unknown (unused) state.

[Tonerbomb]

Re: Format Hard drive on a Ricoh MPC-2500

I use MIRAY hard drive shredder. It works quite weel not expensive and supports all international standards.