On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Sesame Galeo wrote: >At 19:21 2002-02-03 -0500, you wrote: >>Hi List, >> >>I've got an old Maxtor drive that has some issues and I think it may be in >>need of a low-level format. Is there a utility that anyone could suggest >>that would help me accomplish this and bring the disk back from the brink? > >Hi ! > >If your drive is an IDE drive, low level formatting will harm some >essential info written on the disk but, a risk being a risk, the vendor may >have some program to help you. There was a program call ONTRACK that may be >of some help if you can find a version that can read your HD. > > From old days for old drives, > >You may try an MS-DOS program call debug with the following instruction : > > >start debug >at the prompt, type >g:C800:5 > >CORRECTION, IT SHOULD BE > >g=c800:5 > >sorry ! > >this should bring up a program with all the utilities to low level format >menu including interleaves settings. > >Have fun ! > >Richard
Hi Richard, Thanks for the info. Its quite helpful. Now to the task of fixing this drive. daRcmaTTeR
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