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From: John Beardmore
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1994 17:29

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In article <786983302snz@michaels.demon.co.uk>
           michaels@michaels.demon.co.uk "Michael Salem" writes:

>There are programs which will format low-level format HDs; OnTrack's Disk
>Manager and Spinrite II are examples. Spinrite will re-low-level-format a
>hard disc without losing data; very useful for discs which are going out of
>alignement, or have recoverable bad sectors.

Are they safe on IDE drives BTW ?

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