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--- Douglas James Dunn <douglas.dj.dunn@×××××.com> |
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> um a low level format is always the entire drive. |
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> It basically returns |
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> the drive to factory default. AKA all 0's. A high |
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> level format would |
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> be what your talking about which would be the same |
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> as reformatting a |
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> partition. as fdisk would do. |
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done that. Disk boots linux which is halfway along |
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120G drive(hdb) provided /boot resides on another, |
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master drive(hda). |
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_Nothing_ can be booted from the start of the drive. |
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And nothing dos or windows can be installed on it at |
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all. |
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LBA is set to auto in BIOS, but POST console says it's |
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off. |
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I used fdisk and mkdosfs to format the first half |
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fat32 but it makes no difference. |
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-mw |
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