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From: aslakson@cs.umn.edu (Brian Aslakson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Low-level format
Message-ID: <1991May29.191122.15615@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 19:11:22 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1991May29.191122.15615
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gt5311b@prism.gatech.EDU (BHATTACHARYA,ABHIJIT) writes:
>My roommate just lost lots of data on his MS-DOS machine because of what he
>told me was a "bad low-level format." He also adamantly states that EVERY
>hard drive (including ones for the Mac) should have one done if the integrity of
>the hard drive is in question.

>My question is: what is a low-level format... do I have to worry about it or
>is it just a PC related problem?

It is a bad bad thing to even think about low level formatting an IDE drive.
Which are common on MS-DOS computers.  Your roommate is WRONG!

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