Re: Low Level Formatting an IDE Drive ?

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From: Robin Imrie
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 00:00

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In article <820615882snz@longley.demon.co.uk>
           David@longley.demon.co.uk "David Longley" 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?
> 
> -- 
> David Longley
> 

Low level formatting of IDE drives is generally not recomended. However I have
low level formated two IDE drive and used them for years with no problems
whatsoever. 

The BIOS in your PC proballay will have a utility for low level formating hard
drives.

-- 
Robin Imrie

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Date: 1996/01/03
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