Hi List,
I've got an old Maxtor drive that has some issues and I think it may be in
need of a low-level format. Is there a utility that anyone could suggest
that would help me accomplish this and bring the disk back from the brink?
thanks,
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daRcmaTTeR
At 19:21 2002-02-03 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi List,
>
>I've got an old Maxtor drive that has some issues and I think it may be in
>need of a low-level format. Is there a utility that anyone could suggest
>that would help me accomplish this and bring the disk back from the brink?
Hi !
If your drive i
At 19:21 2002-02-03 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi List,
>
>I've got an old Maxtor drive that has some issues and I think it may be in
>need of a low-level format. Is there a utility that anyone could suggest
>that would help me accomplish this and bring the disk back from the brink?
Hi !
If your drive i
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Sesame Galeo wrote:
>At 19:21 2002-02-03 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi List,
>>
>>I've got an old Maxtor drive that has some issues and I think it may be in
>>need of a low-level format. Is there a utility that anyone could suggest
>>that would help me accomplish this and bring the d
really easy,
Maxtor has a tool on their website. You just have to find it in their
mess.
I wish I could be of more help, but I haven't had to use the utility in
a year or so.
NB
On Sun, 2002-02-03 at 19:21, daRcmaTTeR wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I've got an old Maxtor drive that has some issues and
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002 19:21:45 -0500, daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I've got an old Maxtor drive that has some issues and I think it may be in
> need of a low-level format. Is there a utility that anyone could suggest
> that would help me accomplish this and bring the disk bac
some time back i came across this utility from seagate called
"sgatfmt4" it is a dos based program but it could work with any disk,
provided you entered some details of the hdd like no of cylinders etc.
mario
Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Sesame Galeo wrote:
>
> >At 19:21 2002-0
Hi,
It's generally not a good idea to use the low level formatting feature of
some system board bioses. You might lose the factory skew settings put on
your disk at the factory when they did the factory low level format. The
system board bioses I have seen do not call the proprietary factor
On Monday 04 February 2002 07:36 am, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's generally not a good idea to use the low level formatting feature of
> some system board bioses. You might lose the factory skew settings put on
> your disk at the factory when they did the factory low level format. The
> system boar
zeros
(erasing)
the drive doesn't fix its issues it probably is time to deep six it.
Dwaine
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On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Ken Thompson wrote:
>On Monday 04 February 2002 07:36 am, you wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's generally not a good idea to use the low level formatting feature of
>> some system board bioses. You might lose the factory skew settings put on
>> your disk at the factory when they did t
Mark,
Sorry to hear about the drive... got a couple of my own... However they
can still be useful. I've found that when someone who considers themself
knowledgable in computers comes over, I hand them one of the bad hdd's and
accidently "drop" it in the process. The look on their face makes t
> well...as it turns out after performing a LL format
> on this drive, a
> Maxtor 13.5 Gig, the best I could get out of it was
> 2GB's. I found the
> utility on Maxtor's website, which in itself I
> thought was amazing
> considering their site is ridiculous to navigate.
Maybe try partition magic.
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:07:02 -0800
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to ponder:
> Mark,
>Sorry to hear about the drive... got a couple of my own... However they
> can still be useful. I've found that when someone who considers themself
> knowledgable in computers comes o
On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:21:21 -0800 (PST)
Teng-Fong Seak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> studiouisly spake these words to
ponder:
> > well...as it turns out after performing a LL format
> > on this drive, a
> > Maxtor 13.5 Gig, the best I could get out of it was
> > 2GB's. I found the
> > utility on Maxtor's w
Hello Ken,
ditto, Low level formats are not performed on modern IDE drives. Only
the manafacturer can do this using specilized eqipment. What is now
known as a low level format is simply over writing the data on the
disk that to if you use destructive testing.
i normally keep "low level" format
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