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Started by john
Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:00
HD-low level formatting freeware?
Author: john
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:00
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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. -- John.
Re: HD-low level formatting freeware?
Author: Malcolm Ball
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:00
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In article <924979847.20706.0.nnrp-12.d4e48b20@news.demon.co.uk>,
Alisdair Wren <alisdair@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
>{Reply}@sunshine.tm uttered thus:
>>In article <924973180.9325.0.nnrp-04.d4e48b20@news.demon.co.uk>
>> {$NNTPJan98$}@dytes.demon.co.uk "Alisdair Wren" writes:
[snip]
>AAPOI, is there a way to see how many bad sectors have been mapped on a
EZ SCSI provides a method of viewing both the primary and grown defect
lists in SCSI explorer (at least in version 4 it does)
This could be what you are looking for.
--
Malcolm Ball
Re: HD-low level formatting freeware?
Author: lee donaghy
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 00:00
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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