> Fdisk -is- low level format. The high level format in DOS is called Format.
 > Korny

Sorry but your wrong ....FDISK is partitioning software that prepares your
drive for high Level Format. Low Level Formatting  provides sector
identification on a disk that the drive uses to locate sectors for reading
and writing. When you buy the drive it comes Low Level Formatted by the
manufacturer.

The purpose of a  performing a manufacturer Low Level Format is to cleanse
the drive and restore it to factory specifications. All of the hard drive
manufacturers LLF instructions   I have read to date have stated that often
the only way you can remove a corrupt partition table or boot sector is to
LLF the drive. Personal experience has proven this to be true many times over.

m

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 >From: Mark Rode <[log in to unmask]>
 >Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] low level format
 >Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 22:54:41 -0700
 >
 >FDISK will not remove corrupt partition tables or corrupt boot sectors
 >which is why it is sometimes necessary to LLF.
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Fdisk -is- low level format. The high level format in DOS is called Format.
Fdisk -does- set the partitions -and- wipe all FAT and directory information
from the disk.
Also, you must specify partition information when doing Fdisk.
That according to the Microsoft DOS manual.
=====Korny=====
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