[pchelpers] Re: DIRMS

Talk of low level formatting makes my knees tremble. Some may remember 
the drama some time ago when a Qantum drive was ruined by low level 
formatting. That was because the control data  for the drive was written 
on the disk surface. Low level formatting removed it, making the drive  
no better than a boat anchor. For that reason, please be very sure the 
drive can be safely treated this way before doing it. Need I say more?
See here for details:
http://modecideas.com/faq45.htm?pchelpers

cyrilh@xxxxxxxx wrote:

>PC Cowboy, 
> 
>    I had an NTFS drive in a similar condition. Nothing worked for me except 
> Powermax the Diagnostic from the Maxtor Download Web page
>http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm
>
>I had Powermax do a low level format on the drive and after that I was able to 
>format it and transfer data to it with no problem.. 
>
>   Cy
>  
>

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