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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:28:11 EST
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- From: "Howard W. Pan" <pan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
- Subject: Formatting a disk
- In-Reply-To: Your message of 25 Jan 93 10:39:00 -0500.
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- Hi,
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- I ran in to some problems the other night while trying to perform a low level
- format on my internal harddrive. Maybe you could advise me on the situation.
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- I was having some Media Errors on my internal drive, and people suggested to me
- that performing a low level format on that drive would eliminate those
- problems. So I used the program sdform to format the drive. The program
- said that it would take about 5 minutes to format the 100MB disk. But the
- formatting was done in 5 seconds. I then repeated the process with the disk
- program and the same thing occurred. Am I doing anything wrong here? I
- don't think dong a low level format would only take 5 seconds!
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- Ugh, I just want to get rid of those media erros!
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