Re: Low Level Formatting an IDE Drive ?

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From: Duncan Dubick
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 00:00

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David Longley wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> --
> David Longley

Use this program... it's off of the Western Digital WebSite... BTW... 
you can't Low-level format an IDE hard drive.  This thing does pretty 
much the same thing though.

ftp://ftp.wdc.com/drivers/hdutil/wd_clear.exe

Hope this works for you.

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From: Duncan Dubick <toporowt@cadvision.com>
Subject: Re: Low Level Formatting an IDE Drive ?
Date: 1996/01/06
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