Most hard drive manufactures provide a utilities disk downloadable for free; on the drive is a program which will zero the drive which is the state it was when new. Low level formatting a IDE drive is very risky not cut and dry like SCSI, chances are a low level would ruin it for sure. If writing zeros (erasing) the drive doesn't fix its issues it probably is time to deep six it.
Dwaine -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 6:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] low-level format On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 19:21:45 -0500, daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? Some BIOSes allow you to initiate a low-level format via their setup routine. Otherwise, look for utilities on your hard drive manufacturer's web site. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -- informal Xerox PARC slogan
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