Here's a reply I received from Jamie. He said I could forward it to the list. -Dex -----Original Message----- From: linux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 10:43 To: Dexter Graphic Subject: Re: [EUG-LUG:20] RE: Q: Help with a hard drive I think what ron was thinking here was, its easier to low level format, than learn how to use fdisk... which is true... its kind of a brute force technique. I prefer to do things the proper way, but heck lets face it sometimes life is too short to waste your time tinkering. Low level formatting can wreck a disk, but Ive had good luck doing them... nowadays BIOS's do not include a low level format utility... they used to. most drives can be lowlevel formatted but they void the warrenty! Some lowlevel format utilities are specific to the make of the drive (maxblast==maxtor, Lifeguard utilities==Western digital), but they will work on other drives :) Jamie
