Subj : Hard Drive Format
To   : IRONMAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Jun 11 2020 21:53:57

  Re: Hard Drive Format
  By: IRONMAN to All on Wed Jun 10 2020 05:49 am

 IR> Does anyone know how to do a low level format on a hard drive?
 IR> I'm not sure what a low level is..

That used to be done with low level formatting software up until the late 80s/early 90s, with older hard drives like MFM, etc..  Do you have a PC with such a hard drive?  And I'm assuming you saw something somewhere that told you you need to do a low-level format?  As far as I know, you generally don't need to do a low-level format with modern hard drives.

A low-level format is what lays out the sectors, etc., and you could also do things like have the sector numbering skip sectors and then number the other sectors appropriately, in case you had a slow PC, so that hopefully the right sectors on the platter would end up under the read head at the right time..

I'm not sure where to get such low-level formatting software these days though.

Nightfox

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