Re: HD-low level formatting freeware?

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From: lee donaghy
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:00

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In article <QmctJKAX1eI3Ewk4@grandads.demon.co.uk>, john
<john@grandads.demon.co.uk> writes
>A friend has acquired an old machine on which the HD will not format
>properly. Rather than junk it he would like to try a low level format.
>Does anyone know of freeware or shareware to do this, please?
>Thanks for reading.

If it's an IDE Harddisk do not do a low level format it will totally
shag the drive, A low level format are only for SCSI drives.
-- 
Lee Donaghy
lee@nospam.demon.co.uk
replace nospam with gunhead to send email

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From: lee donaghy <lee@nospam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: HD-low level formatting freeware?
Date: 1999/04/24
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