Re: Low Level Formatting an IDE Drive ?

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From: John Beardmore
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 00:00

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In article <820615882snz@longley.demon.co.uk>, David Longley
<David@longley.demon.co.uk> writes
>I  have  a Western Digital "Caviar" 500MB Hard  drive  which  has 
>about 10MB of bad blocks. I'd prefer to be able to exclude  these 
>altogether  through a low level format. Are there  any  utilities 
>around which will do this? Any Public Domain ones anyone could e-
>mail me?

If you find such a utility I'd be pleased to know about it.

This said, while you may get to those parts of the disk to format, if
they are damaged media, they may cause you grief if they fail again.
Personally I'd be tempted to leave them marked as bad and just run a
thorough diagnostic on the drive.

-- 
John Beardmore

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