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Name: Jimmy
Date: January 10, 2002 at 09:38:04 Pacific
Comment:

HI!
I Have two Quantum with 6,4 Gb! I have a problems with this disk, many bad cluster and sectors.
I searching after program for Low level formating, perhaps can I save this harddisks.
Jimmy from Sweden



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Name: beltoid
Date: January 10, 2002 at 13:23:55 Pacific
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Hey there,
not sure if it will help but you can try scandisk (it probably won't work) and you can try the formatting utility on the windows installation disk (I think it's fdisk or something)

-You're lucky, I only have 412Mb on one and 1.2Gb on the other..


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Response Number 2
Name: Dan The Man
Date: January 11, 2002 at 09:33:24 Pacific
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you might want to go Quantums web sight they might have what you need or email them they will probley send you the program you need ...... I hope this will work for you


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Response Number 3
Name: Trythis
Date: January 14, 2002 at 09:37:24 Pacific
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The Maxtor site has what you need @ :

http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/techsupport/TechnicalProcedures/20014.htm

It is a diagnostic program for Maxtor/Quantum drives.



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Response Number 4
Name: TechGod
Date: February 27, 2002 at 23:07:46 Pacific
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This debug routine is used to erase all partition information on the hard disk drive and is only recommend for experienced users or users who are unable to delete the partition information through fdisk.

From a command prompt Start ... Run ... Command ... debug
-F 200 L1000 0
-A CS:100
xxxx:0100 MOV AX,301
xxxx:0103 MOV BX,200
xxxx:0106 MOV CX,1
xxxx:0109 MOV DX,80

(80 for hd 0 or 81 for hd 1 )

xxxx:010C INT 13
xxxx:010E INT 20
xxxx:0110
-g
Program terminated normally
-q

Now you can run fdisk and repartition your drive set as as active and reformat...



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Response Number 5
Name: marie
Date: March 7, 2002 at 05:01:00 Pacific
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i have an IBM ATA-IDE hard drive that is doing weird stuff. it needs to be low level formatted. does anybody know where i can get a program for this? i have not been able to locate one.
thank you for your help

i have fdisked it and formatted it but this still has not corrected the problem.


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Response Number 6
Name: nirina
Date: May 21, 2002 at 03:21:57 Pacific
Reply:

download lpw level formaring


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Response Number 7
Name: Marvin W
Date: May 30, 2002 at 08:26:28 Pacific
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please could you help me? i have compaq Machine with Hard drive from the fujitsu can not be detected with that paerticular machine what can i do to have the machine working with that same hard drive.

Tnaks Marvin


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