The closest you can get to low level with a current ATA or SCSI drive is a medium level format which simply reinitializes it back to its factory state. This does, however, erase all information on the drive including the boot partition.
There's a utility at http://www.computing.net/faq/contentdos/badsector.html. As long as you BIOS sees the correct information at startup, a boot disk utility should be able to format the drive. Note: it's said that it is best to get the LLF utility from your hard drive manufacturer that is specifically made for your drive. I don't know exactly why that is... --Josiah Gordon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Avi Smith-Rapaport Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 9:26 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Dynamic Disk Configuration to Basic (On a win2k Pro machine) is there a command, or a special software for low level format? sorry never did that before but could... thanks, avi -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Kha Do [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 12:20 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Dynamic Disk Configuration to Basic (On a win2k Pro machine) There's NO way to go back from Dynamic Disks once you've converted. By zero the hard drive, I mean run a low-level format. This writes all zeros to every sector on the hard drive, essentially "scrubbing" it free of any ghost information, including volume and partition info. -----Original Message----- From: Avi Smith-Rapaport [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 8:56 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: Dynamic Disk Configuration to Basic (On a win2k Pro machine) If I have a disk that is now dynamic but I need to bring it back to basic on a Win2k machine, what files need to be on a floppy for me to accomplish this? Avi ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.313 / Virus Database: 174 - Release Date: 1/2/2002 ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
