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From: Michael Salem
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 08:01

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John Beardmore writes:

"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
">alignment, or have recoverable bad sectors.
"
"Are they safe on IDE drives BTW ?

Spinrite is safe on IDE drives: it recognises that a low-level format isn't
allowed and merely reads data, does pattern testing, and rewrites the data,
which can be useful. I don't know about Disk Manager.

There is also at least one program which will successfully low-level-format
IDE drives, but I haven't used it and don't remember its name.

HTH
--
Michael Salem

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