I gotta agree with you guys on this one.... But I do it and often but for a
good reason!
When I see older company computers I alway WIPE the drives.
Brandy
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From: Scott Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > I'm always interested by the tendency of Mac users to reformat and
> > reinitialise hard drives whenever there's a problem, or in this case as
a
> > prophylactic. For the record, there's no way to actually low-level
format
> > an IDE drive like the one in the 3400 (or 2400, or 2300). All you'll be
> > doing is writing zeros to the disk, which isn't going to buy you much
but a
> > sort of hospital sense of cleanliness and a way to work the disk for an
> > hour or so. SCSI disks can be truly low-level formatted (the drive
itself
> > knows how to do this), but (a) it takes forever, and (b) you shouldn't
be
> > doing it all that often.
>
>
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