Re: Oops, low level formatted IDE Hard-drive

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From: Vic Hlushak
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 00:00

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ray rixon <rixon@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>HI SHANE SHOULD'NT BE TO HARD TO FIX
>IF YOU CAN OBTAIN A NEW MACHINE VERSION OF DOS 6.22 AND JUST CHUCK IT IN 
Most newer HDD's now wont let you do a real low level format so it
probably is all right. Just fdisk it to set the primary dos partition
and make it active and away you go. Format and load everything up
again.  i do it all the time, its the easiest way to start fresh. 
I bought a program called Micrscope that really does do a low level
format, one of the very few that can do it properly..

vic


Kelowna, BC. Canada
vhlushak@awinc.com
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From: vhlushak@awinc.com (Vic Hlushak)
Subject: Re: Oops, low level formatted IDE Hard-drive
Date: 1996/03/21
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