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From: morrison@ug.cs.dal.ca (Brad Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Low-level hard disk format
Message-ID: <1989Nov28.010605.28152@ug.cs.dal.ca>
Date: 28 Nov 89 01:06:05 GMT
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Reply-To: morrison@ug.cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Brad Morrison)
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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Spinrite DOES the low-level REformat of your HD, but, the reason it costs so m
much is that it doesn't destroy any data!  In fact it can usually resurect
data that has fallen on weak media.  Spinrite will not wipe your disk clean
when it reformats.

Brad Morrison