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smann@rahul.net  (Steve Mann in San Jose, CA) writes:

>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?

>Bad?  That's an understatement.

>The manufacturer may reformat it for you, for a fee.  You could try some 
>of the data recovery companies to see what it would cost.  Chances are 
>the cost of reformatting will be more than the disk is worth.

Bah!  Every drive manufacturer that I know of has a utility you can download
from their BBS to fix this problem yourself for free (except for the download
time of course.)

They work fine.  yes, you shouldn't low-level format an IDE drive, but you can
recover from it *without* spending big bucks.

-Matth
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