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- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!skule.ecf!drill.me!steinman
- From: steinman@me.utoronto.ca (David Steinman)
- Subject: Re: How to low level format a hard drive?
- Message-ID: <Bs4uoH.5Er@me.utoronto.ca>
- Sender: news@me.utoronto.ca (News Reader)
- Organization: UofT Mechanical Engineering
- References: <1992Jul28.212927.7988@vicorp.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 04:19:28 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- ron@vicorp.com (Ron Peterson) writes:
-
- >Would someone please tell me how to do a low level format on a
- >harddrive under DOS3.3? The machine is some sort of 486 I think
- >(no labels!) which we normally run Unix on but which can be booted
- >as a DOS machine (which no one here knows anything about.)
- >The drive is a Quantum 105S. I think the drive is trashed but
- >want to try a low level format to be sure.
- >ron@vicorp.com or uunet!vicorp!ron
-
- Try running DOS's debug utility. At the '-' prompt, type 'g=c800:5'. This
- should start up the low-level format.
- --
- Dave!
-