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I need help!!! My Hard Drive has lot's of bad sectors and I hear that a low-level format can fix them... I tried everything... Please let me know where I can get a utility to low level formar my disk...
My disk is a Western Digital 5.1b IDE
some mother boards can do the low level format, try to seek for it in the bios setup of your machine.
if it is not there, try to get in thouch with western digital, usually the hard disk sellers provide their customers with utilities like that.
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Have you tried just reformating with format.com? If so did it make any difference?
Norton Disk Doctor might be helpful if you can find a copy. It's available in a trial version from http://www.symantec.com, but I'm not sure if they have a Windows version available to try for free. If the sectors are truely bad, no formatting (even low level) is not going to restore them.
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Take EXTREME caution when formatting and IDE drive! If the drive did not come with a low-level format utility, do it only at your own risk. Low-level formats re-write the HD tracks. This works wonderful on SCSI drives, but on IDE's usually causes most of the drive to be unusuable.
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Go to www.wdc.com. In the support section you will find a utility file that will correctly low level format the drive, it will also trouble shoot it if it fails under5 warrenty and gives the info to return to the manufacutere for replacement.
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Low-Level Formatting
This is the process of physically setting up the locations of sectors so user data can be stored in them. Because
Western Digital hard drives are low-level formatted at the factory, you do not need to low-level format them.This is what I found at Western Digital's site... Try to contact them...
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I need help!!! My Hard Drive has lot's of bad sectors and I hear that a low-level format can fix them... I tried everything... Please let me know where I can get a utility to low level formar my disk...
I have a Quantum SE 3.2Gb HDD
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Hi,
Bad sectors are phisical defects of hard drive magnetic layer. So if you really have the bad sectors (not just data corruption which you can remove by format) the only thing you can do is to replace your hard drive.
Good luck, Igor M
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Hey, i have a maxtor 7000 series hd -ide and i must low level format it.....
how i can do?!?!on maxtor site there is'nt any utility for these series..
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I suggest you do a search for "Drivepro" software, i have used this on many hardrives and their utility is very good and safe, it has two low level formats 1)low level, 2)destructive, it works well and it is a reputible company as well, but like everything else take caution and BACKUP YOUR DATA!!
Good Luck
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There is a great utility that does a low level format and will test each sector of your hard drive. It will test the bad sectors and return them to a running condition if they test good. The software is called Spinrite, and available at www.spinrite.com. It costs $90, which is kind of pricy, but it really does a good job.
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hi ,
I search too program that do low level format and I found some site that give you the options to download some program that
do this thay write that this program is for
scsi drive but I try it and she work on any drive.the url for the site is http://www.advansys.com/support/fmtscsi.htm
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Help me.
I have a samsung 4.3 G.B. hard drive and it marks a pile overflow, i know that if i format the hard drive normally, it will show me that overflow message, where can i find a good low level format software?
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The best way is the western digital suport,
www.westerndigital.com, the file is dlg_diag.exe, this file is all you need.
sorry by my enghish.
Good look
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Hi,
i've low level formated a 18GB IBM UWSCSI drive and now it is only a 8 GB drive. I think there is now something wrong with the special information sector -1 where the special mapping table should be.
Does anyone knows a programm to restore this informations for such a drive.
IBM DNES-318350
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I have a HP Vectra 500 series PC with 1794MB HD running win95. One day, I on the PC and system prompted the message " Operation System not found". And I made a win95 startup disk from other PC and used it to startup this PC. Then I run the fdisk.exe, but the system prompted "error read fixed disk". I tried the Norton DD and it was keeping tell me I must do the low level format to solve the problem. Please Help.
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All you need to know about low-level formatting.
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/faq/faq96029.shtml
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I had the same problem here's what you do. If you have the ez-drive software its real easy, just pop in the disk and restart your computer then follow the instructions on the screen and WRITE TO ZEROS. If you dont have this software go to Western Digital's homepage, go to service & support, then go to drivers & utilities and down load a copy of Data Lifeguard Tools (formerly ez-drive).
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I had the same problem here's what you do. If you have the ez-drive software its real easy, just pop in the disk and restart your computer then follow the instructions on the screen and WRITE TO ZEROS (this is the same as a low-level format. If you dont have this software go to Western Digital's homepage, go to service & support, then go to drivers & utilities and down load a copy of Data Lifeguard Tools (formerly ez-drive). Also, WD's tech support # is 1-800-832-4778.
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I need help!!! My Hard Drive has lot's of bad sectors and I hear that a low-level format can fix them... I tried everything... Please let me know where I can get a utility to low level formar my disk...
I have a SAMSUNG SV0644A
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Listen. There is NOTHING You can do but to buy a new hard drive or return the current drive for a replacement if it is still under warranty with the retailer you purchased it from or the manufacturer. Retailers will usually have a 1yr warranty. However manufacturers have a 2yr to 3 yr warranty on their drives.
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I need help!!! My Hard Drive has lot's of bad sectors and the big problem is there is a Bad sector at first sector. So, I can't running hard Disk for application.
Can a low-level format fix them...?
Please let me know where I can get a utility to low level formar my disk...
I have a Seagate HDD 2.1 GB
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Hi there,
I've got a GATEWAY200 SOLO Notebook pentium 133Mhz was orginally installwinNT3.51.
Now I want to format the hard drive to install win95 by floppies(because it does not have a cd rom). Unfortunately I can't delete the NTFS patition and I can't get into the bios setup mode as it asked for the password from the floppy disk which I don't have a disk and forgot the password.
Please help me or give me the "back door" password for Phoenix bios or show me how to install win95 over the NTFS partition, or how to do a low level format as some one told me that it will fix the problem.
Thanks in advance.
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I have a samsung 4.3GB hard drive.
Does anyone know of a utility to successsfully low level format a Samsung hard drive please e-mail me.
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I have a samsung 4.3GB hard drive.
Does anyone know of a utility to successsfully low level format a Samsung hard drive please e-mail me.
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please help me to format my hard drive
i cannot enter in it & my bios do not
have low level format, i cannot use fdisc or
any other program!
how can i low level format my disc using some other program???
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I'm doing a college assessment and desperately need to know how mapping surface analysis works during low-level formatting, it's not in any books
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Need some help.
I have a Maxtor 1.6GB Hard drive. Model 81750a4. It had bad sector. when I tried format. it doesn't format due to error on hard drive. I tried FDISk. same thing. Scandisk will not fix the error because the sector is bad. And FAT table as well. What kind of ultility software or low level which will fix the error? any website or other software in which i can download?
Thank you very much. and have a good day.
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I used MSdelpart to delete a linex partition. I had used fdisk after and all seemed ok but the computer won't boot from the Harddrive. The hard drive has command.com and all other start up files but I just get the message non system disk. do I need to do a low level format?
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I have a Quantum Bogfoot Cy 2.1 GB 5.25 Series Hard Disk..
Where can i get the utility to do low level format??
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I have a CONNER 2.1 GB SCSI drive that has one partition"NETWARE/386", not DOS or WIN.9X. There were twin SCSI Hard Drives on the system, but now the "Master" boot disk is gone and I cannot recover any data from it. DOS does not "see" the NETWARE/386" disk, Win9X can see the disk but cannot write to it. What drivers do I need to load to be able to low level format and re-partition the disk, or should I throw both SCSI drives away?
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Hi there.
I've got the same problem as many of the others.
(sorry 'bout the spelling - danish and english don't work very well together)
I installed Linux RH6.1 on a 4.3GB Quantum Fireball SE (as far as I remember *no label*)
Now I want to install both win98 and win2k while I have Linux. I know that I have to installe the two MS-OS first, but my problem is that I can't delete/erase Linux. I've tried with 'fdisk' - not working. Then I tried to find a Low Level Format-util that could erase RH. But I can't find a DOS util (I need one of these because win98 and win2k aren't installed). Fdisk finds the hhd (where linux is installed) but can't erase the logic drive/extended/etc etc.
Someone how can give me an URL where I can find a dos-util for low level formating ?
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need to make a low level format for my hard disk cause having problems with it's surface
& i need a utility program to do this fore me
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