Oops, low level formatted IDE Hard-drive

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From: Shane Roberts
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 00:00

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Hi Folks,

Can anyone 
help me 
recover a 
Conner 
CP30104H 
IDE Hard 
Drive from 
a low 
 level 
format?

I was 
preparing 
the hard 
drive for 
installati
on to my 
computer 
and
 used the 
AMIBIOS 
hard drive 
format 
utility, 
oops, 
didn't I 
read some-
 where 
that IDE 
hard 
drives 
shouldn't 
be low 
level 
formatted 
and that
 some 
drives had 
to be 
returned 
to the 
manufactur
er if they 
were? :-)

Does 
anyone 
have a 
programme 
to aid in 
bringing 
this hard 
drive back
 to life. 
 The 
computer 
doesn't 
recognise 
it and 
Windows 
3.1 says
 that it 
doesn't 
like the 
HD's 
driver.

My system 
is a 
486SX25, 
4Mb ram, 
AMI bios, 
running 
MsDOS 6.22 
and
 Windows 
3.1.

Many 
thanks in 
advance.  
Any 
assistance 
would be 
much 
appreciate
d.
 Thankyou.

Shane 
Roberts.


Email:- sroberts@whanganui.ac.nz |
        Wanganui                 |
        New Zealand              |

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From: sroberts@whanganui.ac.nz (Shane Roberts)
Subject: Oops, low level formatted IDE Hard-drive
Date: 1996/03/16
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