If you really must do low level formating and the disk is WD then there used to be an appropriate tool (wd_diag.exe) on their www pages. This tool will also tell you if low level formating might help.
> On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Patrik Magnusson wrote: > > > > I need to Low Format a hard drive - I have a drive that has at some stage > > Some BIOSes lets you do this. > > But you shouldn't ever low level format a hard drive. It isn't necessary > any more since the 80's. If you have a drive (ESPECIALLY an IDE drive) > that can't simply be repartitioned with fdisk and formatted normally it's > probably ruined. >
