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- Organization: University of Central Florida--Computer Services
- Date: Saturday, 26 Dec 1992 22:38:05 EST
- From: Bill Laird <COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET>
- Message-ID: <92361.223805COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Need help. Hard drive failure.
- References: <1992Dec25.202029.17250@netcom.com>
- <92360.211533COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET> <1992Dec26.152414.29296@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
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- In article <1992Dec26.152414.29296@IRO.UMontreal.CA>,
- cholette@saguenay.iro.umontreal.ca (Martin Cholette) says:
- >
- ***** You Should NOT low level format an IDE drive !!! Depending on the drive,
- > two things might happen 1) You might scrap the drive.
- > or 2) The IDE controller will ignore the low level
- > re-formatting.
-
- From what I understand, the only time you should low level format an IDE
- drive is when you continuously keep getting "sector not found" "general read
- error", etc. and ALL ELSE FAILS to do the trick. In fact, I have read that
- most IDE drives that "go bad" really only need a low level format.
-
- Bill
-