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Article #234Re: Oops, low level formatted IDE Hard-drive
From: Jimmy Chen
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:00
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francis wrote: > > pgrooby@trimble.co.nz (Pete Grooby) writes: > > >I thought doing a low level format on an IDE drive completely stuffed it. > > NO, modern IDE drives can't be low-level formatted via the system BIOS. > [...] Are you sure ? Cause I stuffed a Quantum 1.27Gb Fireball through ignorance doing a BIOS low level format on it. And no matter how I fdisk or DOS format the drive, it didn't work. Got it fixed eventually by getting it low-level formated by a program. NOT from BIOS. It *may* be fixed if you manage to get the low level formatting program from the manufacture. l> >I would agree with your reformat advice for a 'normal' format but if its a low l> >level one I would say it is stuffed. l> > l> >Here's hoping I am wrong. l> l> generally speaking, you are.
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