western digital

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western digital - 01/06/05 11:54 AM

bold text YA I WAS WOUNDERING IF I DID A LOW LEVEL FORMAT
CAN I PUT A FRESH COPY OF XP PRO FRESH INSTALL ON IT AND NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEMS DOING SO ?

Re: western digital - 01/06/05 01:30 PM

These days LLF's are done at the factory and cannot be done by a user. For XP, you can use CDROM drive setup to delete any existing partitions before creating a new one to install XP on it.

http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/low-level-format.html

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/ata_llfmt_what.html

Re: western digital - 01/06/05 05:27 PM

Originally posted by Alec§taar:
Quote:
Pete, you SURE about that? I mean, doesn't Western Digital's "LifeGuard Tools" that ship w/ their drives provide a low-level formatting routine containing program??

APK


Sort of, the Data Lifeguard tools can do a Zero Fill, quick or full to the drive, be it PATA or SATA. It can do a drive diagnostic as well. I guess it depends on what is considered a low level format wink