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Re: low level format
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raymond kornele <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 24 Sep 1999 21:34:25 PDT
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>From: Mary Elise Zimlich <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [PCBUILD] low level format
>Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:57:51 -0400
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>My question is can someone recommend a utility, freeware would be
>exceptionally great, to do a low level format of this drive?

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Fdisk, which came with DOS at least through 6.22. You may need to do a
surface analysis on the disk since it could be losing sectors. If this
proves to be the case I would say, "chuck it," since once a disk's  surface
(hard or floppy) starts to go bad it will continue to do so.
=====Korny=====

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