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um a low level format is always the entire drive. It basically returns |
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the drive to factory default. AKA all 0's. A high level format would |
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be what your talking about which would be the same as reformatting a |
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partition. as fdisk would do. |
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On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 08:42 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: |
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> Hello everbody, |
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> Maxtor suggests I do a low-level format of my flaky |
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> Diamond 16 drive using their Powermax tool. |
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> Unfortunately it doesn't give you the option of |
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> sparing one partition or the other -- it does the |
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> whole thing. |
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> I strongly suspect the problem lies on the first half |
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> of the drive where XP-pro used to reside. Is there a |
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> way to do a low-level format of part of a drive while |
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> leaving the rest intact? |
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> -mw |
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