On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: > > I need to Low Format a hard drive - I have a drive that has at some stage > Some BIOSes lets you do this. But you shouldn't ever low level format a hard drive. It isn't necessary any more since the 80's. If you have a drive (ESPECIALLY an IDE drive) that can't simply be repartitioned with fdisk and formatted normally it's probably ruined.