At 5:11 PM -0500 8/1/01, Joshuha Allen wrote:
>
>Use FWB's Hard Disk Toolkit to format your drive. It will low-level and
>zero all data and initialize in one smooth operation. Once you have doe
>this though, you must use HDTK to format that drive every time, you cant
>switch between disk setup and HDDTK as this will ruin the drive
Josh,
Can you tell more about this? Do you know why this is the case?
I believe I've seen this happen to one or two drives...
What should one do if one gets a second-hand drive? Should you
examine all of the partitions/drivers with HDTK to see if it's ever been
touched by HDTK? Or should you just only remove/add partitions with Drive
Setup, but never actually "initialize" the disk...?
Thanks!
-Greg
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