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Tony Ching-Kong Hwang (thwang@uclink2.berkeley.edu) wrote:


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

Low level format of an ide drive is the best possible way to invest in a 
new drive.  Low level formatting an ide drive through you bios will erase 
the drive's physical geometry by overwriting it with the logical geometry 
the bios uses to translate it.  You may get the drive to work temporarily 
(seldom happens) but it will most likely not work at all.  


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