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From:Andrew Crowe
Date:25 Oct 2000 at 22:48:54
Subject:Re: [(Dodgy) 2.5in. HDDs'

Hi Everybody,

> I know some people disagree with low level formatting 2.5" IDE
> drives, but it has been my experience when a 2.5" drive has been
> fixed and formatted for use with PC`s, and they will be used on an
> Amiga, that sometimes the Amiga won`t recognise the drive. So for
> the drive to be recognised by the Amiga it becomes necessary for the
> previous formatting to be removed, this will be done by low level
> formatting. Yours more helpfully,

But I've heard that on most drives Lowlevel format doesn't do anything
anyway, surely the best way to get rid of the old PC format would be
to use FDisk on a PC to delete the partition?

See ya :)



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