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low level format
Name: marvy Date: May 17, 2003 at 11:49:01 Pacific OS: win 98 CPU/Ram: duron 1.2ghz/128mb
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i have 1 hard disk which has lots of errors on it. i read about an article here which says something about the killhdd.bat file. does anyone have an idea where we could get this? where can we learn more about this killhdd thing? tnx!
best to use the program provided by your hard drive manufacturers support download site. such as powermax for maxtor,lifeguard for western digital,seatools for seagate etc.
I would reccomend Killdisk also, free download at www.killdisk.com, I had some problems when formatting a hard drive, try to re-locate allocation files, so I booted to the A: prompt, ran Killdisk, re-formatted and no more problems.
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Response Number 6
Name: Terri Date: May 19, 2003 at 12:41:19 Pacific
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I just got done working on a hard drive that had over 25 bad sectors on it. Wouldn't format for nothing. Ran Powermax on it and did a low level format, then formatted it normally and now there are no problems at all. I'd be afraid to try that killhdd.bat but the powermax did just the thing to make it work ok now.
Summary: On an earlier post, "Scandisk Cannot Examine Drive C:" someone--Daveincaps--suggested I might have to perform a low level format of my laptop hard drive to get it working. Right now it stalls everytim...
Summary: Hi, I nned to find a utility I can download to do a low level format on my new hard drive..it is ide and the boot file got corrupted so it cannot boot even with a floppy disk..Spoke to toshiba and th...
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