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Low-level formatting for Fujitsu Harddrive

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Name: Marius van Tonder
Date: January 29, 1999 at 20:38:14 Pacific
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Need a Low-level formatting Utility for a Fujitsu MPA3017AT 1.7GB Harddrive. Does anybody know where I can get one.

Thanks

Marius



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Response Number 1
Name: end efectur
Date: January 30, 1999 at 04:49:06 Pacific
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Ezdrive should work can get a verion from Western Digital or Maxtor


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Response Number 2
Name: WireHead
Date: January 31, 1999 at 10:19:24 Pacific
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Try fugitsu's home page yet? I think one is there.


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Response Number 3
Name: goris luc
Date: August 20, 1999 at 05:25:29 Pacific
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how to format low level a hdd fujitsu

model M1636TAU?


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Response Number 4
Name: Joe
Date: September 22, 1999 at 12:05:57 Pacific
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Its impossible to get the program. Fujitsu won't let you have it. Years ago, Seagate used to have them in their BBS for seagate hdd. Maxtor too. The only way it might work is to get a adaptor and use it to plug your 2.5" HDD into a dektop motherboard. Use CMOS to autodetect HDD type. Then run the LLformat from the bios setup HDD format utility (most motherboard has this function).
Noe that if you HDD already has problems of being detected, it will not work. Don't ever use EZDRIVE or DiskManager - they write allsorts of garbage into your HDD and later if the data is corrupted, you'll never be able to clean up the HDD again. I am experiencing this at the moment. One more thing: when you plugin a HDD into a uptodate motherboard and the bios ha


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Response Number 5
Name: Joe
Date: September 22, 1999 at 12:08:38 Pacific
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Its impossible to get the program. Fujitsu won't let you have it. Years ago, Seagate used to have them in their BBS for seagate hdd. Maxtor too. The only way it might work is to get a adaptor and use it to plug your 2.5" HDD into a dektop motherboard. Use CMOS to autodetect HDD type. Then run the LLformat from the bios setup HDD format utility (most motherboard has this function).
Noe that if you HDD already has problems of being detected, it will not work. Don't ever use EZDRIVE or DiskManager - they write allsorts of garbage into your HDD and later if the data is corrupted, you'll never be able to clean up the HDD again. I am experiencing this at the moment. One more thing: when you plugin a HDD into a uptodate motherboard and the bios haS PROBLEMS detecting it, there is a high chance that the HDD is defective, crashed or Onboard controller unserviceable. Also Hitachi / Fujitsu and Seagate seems to fail more frequently from my experience of usage. Toshiba and IBM are ROCK steady! Thrust me.


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Response Number 6
Name: dwmccarn
Date: October 16, 1999 at 12:26:09 Pacific
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hello:
i had a boot sector virus infecting 2 of my Fujitsu 8.4GB drives. when I fdisk & reformat, not all the available (8.4GB) comes back, and I had to redo the above procedure 3 times to again get up to 8.4GB. Still, the sector count is a little off an uncorrupted 8.4GB. I'd love to do a low-level format and it was suggested to use the western digital utility. Should I?
Thanks


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Response Number 7
Name: Janni
Date: November 18, 1999 at 10:40:52 Pacific
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I need also a utiltity for the Fujitsu MPA3017AT ID:JW

thank and regards
Janni


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Response Number 8
Name: louis
Date: December 13, 1999 at 01:58:17 Pacific
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i made a mistake on my hdd.when i try to run my bootup disk it does not work.i try to run setup from nt and it states there is not enough memory .
The model no: MPE3064AT
PART NO: CAO5367-B98200EL

I NEED TO LOW LEVEL FORMAT THE HHD.


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Response Number 9
Name: zafer
Date: December 14, 1999 at 05:51:58 Pacific
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try


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Response Number 10
Name: Knight
Date: January 7, 2000 at 08:18:37 Pacific
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Anyone have a valid link for this? Formatting doesn't work (dropped the laptop). Fujitsu's page http://www.fujitsu.ca/technicl/hdfaq.htm#utility says "No. This low level operation is a complicated process and is only performed at the factory".

Annoying, for those of us who know.

Thanks for any assist.


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Response Number 11
Name: Walter James
Date: January 8, 2000 at 09:21:29 Pacific
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dffs


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Response Number 12
Name: Erik Van Kelst
Date: January 19, 2000 at 19:42:10 Pacific
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I need it as fast as possible, help me out


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Response Number 13
Name: Sukic Stefan
Date: February 7, 2000 at 10:17:48 Pacific
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Software foor Low-level formating


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Response Number 14
Name: TC
Date: February 9, 2000 at 20:03:19 Pacific
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Ontrack.com 25 bucks.


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Response Number 15
Name: Chris
Date: March 2, 2000 at 09:44:15 Pacific
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I've just found one on their Australian web site


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Response Number 16
Name: dan
Date: June 9, 2000 at 01:47:59 Pacific
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My advice is don't use anything made by western digital.
EzBios installed on my fujitsu drive and it wasn't supposed to. Now it's completely buggered.
It's permanently corrupted the file allocation table.
THANK WESTERN DIGITAL
b---tardS


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Response Number 17
Name: Renaud
Date: June 23, 2000 at 00:19:23 Pacific
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Hi,
I've had a problem with a Fujitsu HD.
No more boot partition...
Need to format it "low-level".
No tools from Fujitsu, so I used llfutil.exe from Maxtor.
And now my HD is clean and I can install my OS.
Thanks to Maxtor ( my second HD who didn't crash... thanks fujitsu )


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Response Number 18
Name: Eddie
Date: June 23, 2000 at 08:03:16 Pacific
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My Fujitsu Harddrive wouldn't work after I did the LL Format from Maxtor. I think it has a bad boot sector and there's no way to fix that. I has not read it at higher than 472MB. Even when I enabled LBA mode when LL formatting. It's a Fujitsu MPD3043AT 4.3GB HDD.


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Response Number 19
Name: Alex
Date: July 10, 2000 at 04:07:49 Pacific
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It seems that MPE3136AT HDD boot was damaged. This handicap appeared after unsucceful attempt of Win NT 4 Server setup.
So, that the execution of HDD sys becomes impossible.


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Response Number 20
Name: Toshay Balan
Date: September 27, 2000 at 23:57:11 Pacific
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I need a Maxtor Low level format software. Where can i find one


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Response Number 21
Name: sksiva
Date: November 15, 2000 at 07:21:49 Pacific
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i have fujitsu harddrive model m1614tau.i use fujitsu disk manager version 9.52 to fdisk and format my hdd.but i have problem can;nt work.what u sould i do further?pls help me as soon as possible.bye.


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Response Number 22
Name: Steve
Date: December 11, 2000 at 20:20:42 Pacific
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I need a LLformating utility for my toshiba laptop HDD.Any ideas


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