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Re: Low Level Format of IDE - bad idea?

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From: Russell Bornschlegel
Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 00:00

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In article <3oiseq$iul@hustle.rahul.net>,  <Kevin@Computer.com> wrote:
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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?


I've been told NEVER to do a low-level format of an IDE drive, though I 
don't know exactly what happens when you do. Call Conner?

-- 
          Kaleja Lutrec / Russell Bornschlegel / kaleja@rahul.net 
        "I don't read minds, but sometimes I look at the pictures."

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From: Russell Bornschlegel <kaleja@rahul.net>
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