huh?
Most drive maunf's if you call thier support dept have you low-level it
with thier utility disk that came with the drive or downloaded from thier
website. To properly diagnose(read cover up bad sectors by remaping them to
the engineering cylinder) the hard drive to determine if they should have you
send it in for warranty replacment.
The utilities don't call it low-level format anymore, but it is exactly what
they do (rewrite the sector ids and write 0's to all the sectors and remap
and bad sectors)
-Joe
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 06:08 pm, you wrote:
> I would never sugguest a low level format especially if it is made within
> the past 8 years.
> Also be aware that alot of the newer drive has the ability to keep track of
> being low level
> formated which now will void a drive warranty.
>
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