On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
>
> >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?
>
Nahh... I think Charles just panicked and associated
"format" with "low-level" format. What you (probably) did
with the "format" command should be no problem.
John
