I've downloaded the tools straight from the Manufacturer when I've needed
to do it. Also my thought is, if the ide drive is hosed anyway, what does
it hurt. Another trick is to format it with a dos disk then try again
with linux sometimes that helps too.
James
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:16:16 -0500
"Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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