Re: Low Level Formatting an IDE Drive ?

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From: Bob Casanova
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 00:00

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In article <820615882snz@longley.demon.co.uk> David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk> writes:
>From: David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk>
>Subject: Low Level Formatting an IDE Drive ?
>Date: Tue, 02 Jan 96 20:51:22 GMT

>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?

Disk Manager by Ontrack will do just about anything you want to do to an IDE 
drive. Be cautious.


>-- 
>David Longley

Bob C.

* Good, fast, cheap!  (Pick 2) *

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Date: 1996/01/03
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