Hi,
It's generally not a good idea to use the low level formatting feature of some system board bioses. You might lose the factory skew settings put on your disk at the factory when they did the factory low level format. The system board bioses I have seen do not call the proprietary factory format routines on the hard disk; at least not the ones that I have seen. And I've seen a few. Sesame Galeo recommended a debug routine. If that works, it's the best way, because that command sequence is routing you to the hard drive's formatting routine in it's firmware. If however your drive does not respond with that, you really should get a low level factory format program from the manufacturer. That way you won't mess your drive up. On Sunday 03 February 2002 19:21, 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? > > thanks, _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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