Re: How do you LOW FORMAT a hard drive
If you really must do low level formating and the disk is WD then there used
to be an appropriate tool (wd_diag.exe) on their www pages. This tool will
also tell you if low level formating might help.
> On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote:
>
> > > I need to Low Format a hard drive - I have a drive that has at some stage
> > Some BIOSes lets you do this.
>
> But you shouldn't ever low level format a hard drive. It isn't necessary
> any more since the 80's. If you have a drive (ESPECIALLY an IDE drive)
> that can't simply be repartitioned with fdisk and formatted normally it's
> probably ruined.
>
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