They utilities supplied BY the drive makers. Some call it Zero Fill,
wipedisk. I forgot who, but one calls their utility "Unformatter."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <mce@dalismustache.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] cleaning a hard drive of GRUB
> 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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