Many cmos setup programs (ie DEL at boot) will lowlevel format drives. On a petnium
133 system I had to lowlevel format a disk I had taken out of an older machine. It
had Ontrack software on it, and I had to lowlevel format it to get it off.
Now that I think of it though, it's possible I haven't seen that option available in
the newer cmos setups (p2/p3).
Cory
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:09:52AM -0800, Dexter Graphic wrote:
> > Usually, after an hour or so of pain and agony, I simply low-level format
> > the hard drive and then re-fdisk it using the Windblows fdisk so set up my
> > Windblows partition only and re-format and install...
> >
> > If you don't have a low-level formatter, send me an e-mail at
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will send you a copy of the one I have.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Ron
>
> I thought low level formatting wasn't necessary any more with modern IDE
> hard drives? I remember that we used to have to run a DEBUG script to do
> that back in the olden days (1980's). Wouldn't the low level formatter be
> drive and manufacturer dependent?
>
> Dexter
