>From: Mary Elise Zimlich <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: [PCBUILD] low level format >Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:57:51 -0400 > ---- snip ---- >My question is can someone recommend a utility, freeware would be >exceptionally great, to do a low level format of this drive? =============== 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===== ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html