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johnboyd@logdis1.oc.aflc.ar.mil (John Boyd:LAHDI) writes;
> It recently occured to me that we get rid of most boot-sector viruses
> by routinely doing a low-level format on a drive.  However, this is
> not possible on an IDE drive...

Seems I keep seeing over and over on this list that one *almost never*
has to do a low level format to remove boot sector viruses.  However
on the question of how does one format an IDE drive there are programs
out there that will do such a thing.  I recently upgraded a couple of
Compaq machines and found Disk Manager 4.0 did the trick just fine.
So if you feel that you *absolutely must* low level format to get rid
of the offending virus give it a shot.

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