Low Level Formatting an IDE Drive ?

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From: David Longley
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 00:00

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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

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From: David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Low Level Formatting an IDE Drive ?
Date: 1996/01/02
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