[24hoursupport] Re: Scandisk fails to correct the disk error
- From: "Douglas S. Oliver" <dsoliver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: 24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 26 Aug 2003 18:24:56 -0700
In my A+ training a number of years back, it was said that this was
true. It was also said that newer drives were almost impossible to low
level format because of their circuitry and their own built in drive
bios. Although a low level format option was available on older system
bios, it was actually over ridden by the drive's own bios. However,
people on this list have said that they use software that enables them
to low level format newer drives without difficulty pointing out that
the manufacturer must be able to do this.
Given these things, I don't know what to say. I have used older system
bios to "low level" format newer drives, but what really took place I
don't know. I formatted the drive by its manufacturer's defaults. -- d
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:17, M.Thakur wrote:
> I was wondering if low level formatting is specially hazardous in drives
> later than EIDE and ATA. What say?
> M.Thakur
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> >
> > Some low level format utilities that come with the hard drive can also
> > replace mismarked bad sectors.
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