Re: Low level format of Hitachi drive

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From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 17:55:57 EDT

I GIVE UP
THROW AWAY YOUR DRIVE INSTEAD OF CURING IT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael She" <michael.she_at_binaryio.com>
To: <thinkPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: Low level format of Hitachi drive

> And why not?
>
> If a drive has bad sectors, that is a possible indication that the drive
is
> going bad.
>
> And since the low-level format utility did not work, doesn't this point to
> drive failure?
>
> How are you to know that it wasn't ERASE.EXE that wasn't working?
>
>
>
>
> At 09:52 PM 9/29/2002 -0400, Bruce Markowitz you wrote:
> >NOT TRUE
> >Learn the facts before you give advise
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Michael She" <michael.she_at_binaryio.com>
> >To: <thinkPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
> >Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 8:20 PM
> >Subject: Re: Low level format of Hitachi drive
> >
> >
> > > At 01:28 PM 9/28/2002 -0700, gwydion you wrote:
> > > >Anyone know how to do a low-level format of a Hitachi 12G drive (IBM
> > > >FRU:09N0935)? I've tried the IBM utility disk, and it locks up if I
try
> > > >to start a low level format.
> > > >
> > > >The drive has some bad sectors. I've done a Norton disk doctor scan,
and
> > > >a high level format, but would like to do a low level format.
> > > >
> > > >I'm using a T20 w/ Win2k. I used the IBM utility disk with a Win98
boot
> > > >disk.
> > >
> > >
> > > If the IBM utility can't do a low level format... the drive might be
bad.
> > >
> > > If you're seeing bad sectors, I would ditch the drive as fast as
possible.
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