| From: | Andrew Crowe |
| Date: | 24 Oct 2000 at 20:53:32 |
| Subject: | Re: (Dodgy) 2.5in. HDDs' |
Hi Everybody,
> These two 2.5" drives have probably been used on a laptop, and you
> may need to select the option of low level formatting before either
> drive will work properly. This has happened to me previously with a
> brand new drive, and since you`re thinking of throwing them out
> wouldn`t hurt to try it. Yours helpfully,
> [Flash]
no no no no, don't low level format IDE drives. You only do that on
SCSI drives, at best ide drives ignore a low level format, at worst
(so i've heard) they can be damaged.
See ya :)
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