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Re: How do you LOW FORMAT a hard drive



> > > 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.

More that that, it's REALLY dangerous to do so in new IDE drives (something to do
with geometry parameters, if I'm not mistaken)...

Now, how would I LOW FORMAT a floppy disk???

[]'s

Guilherme Zahn


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