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Low Level Format of IDE - bad idea?

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From: Kevin
Date: Sun, 07 May 1995 00:00

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I did a low level format of an IDE drive a friend gave me.  It is a 
conner 120 meg IDE drive.  After that I partitioned it and did a DOS 
format, and it all worked.  Or appeared to.  Then I ran double space, 
which gave me a message about an 'unrecoverable' error - and now I cannot 
access the drive at all - not with Super-Stor, not with fdisk, nothing!  
Have I killed my drive somehow?  Is it bad to do a low level format of an 
IDE?

Help!

Thanks,

kevin

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