James wrote:
>
> Deryk,
> If this drive has been used for a while maybe a low level format will
> bring it back. I was helping a friend a while back recover some old
> computers for schools in the area. A lot of the drives had simular
> problems (although not as large a drive) 2 gig drives with 1 gig of
> "usable" space for example. We would low level format the drives and then
> "poof" they were back to normal most of the time.
I'm a little concerned here...is this a SCSI drive? If not, I was always told
that a true low-level format potentially destroys/damages IDE drives... ;-(
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