On 29/03/00 18:48, Charles Curley [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to have
said:
>
>What do you mean, "reformatting"? If you did a low level format of an IDE
>hard drive, you may have destroyed it. The drive will appear to accept
>writes, and will retain data for a while, but not for long, say 0-25
>hours.
>
>When IDE drives first came out, user reformatting was a major cause of
>death of IDE drives. Most vendors later built protections against
>formatting into their drives. I would think that the manufacturers would
>retain this protection, but possibly you hit on an exception?
Um... It was the vendor, Gateway, who told me to do this...
Should I be worried?
Kirk
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