i need a low level format utility,so i can remove bad sectors from a hard drive,does anyone know where i can find one on the net,please let me know, also the name of it. it"s a fujitsu 10.8gb hard drive.... thx.

Before you do........aaack! If you use a low level formater and by some chance (power outage or surge) some thing weird happens,,,,,,,,,,your hard drive is toast. I do mean toast. No second chances with a low level format. If I may? get with fujitsu. See if they have a recomenned utility of their own. Scandisk wont fix the errors? Not trying to scare you off from this but trying to avoid total disaster......been there done that. World Library

Try FORMAT /C This will check your Disk Surface for errors. If sectors ARE BAD it will still mark them as so. However if they are found to be OK, They will be UnMarked!

Do a low level format via BIOS

The good ones have gone and why they did

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The above post by world library is incorrect... A low level format will not ruin your drive if a power failure occurs.. and just for grins here is a batch file that I found that will low format your drive... ----- CUT HERE ------ @ECHO OFF IF NOT EXIST %0 GOTO ERROR ECHO PRESS A KEY TO DELETE ALL DATA ON YOUR HARD DISK, CTRL+C TO CANCEL. pause >nul DEBUG <%0 ECHO SUCCESS! ECHO Computer is HALTED, Hit Ctrl+Alt+Del To Reboot . . . CTTY NUL A 100 INT 13 RAX 0301 RBX 0200 F 200 L 200 0 RCX 0001 RDX 0080 P Q ;REPLACE 0080 WITH 0081 IF YOU ;WANT TO CLEAR THE SECOND PHYSICAL ;HDD, 0082 FOR THE THIRD HDD,ETC. :ERROR ECHO YOU MUST TYPE THE FULL FILE NAME (KILLHDD.BAT) TO EXECUTE. ----- CUT HERE ----- Note: you need a program called debug.exe to run this... you should be able to find it in your c:\windows\command directory.