Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!alberta!auvax!kevinc From: kevinc@auvax.UUCP (Kevin Barry Crocker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: low-level format Message-ID: <381@auvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 12:58:26 EST Article-I.D.: auvax.381 Posted: Mon Nov 2 12:58:26 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 6-Nov-87 22:11:33 EST References: <4678@zen.berkeley.edu> Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada Lines: 16 Summary: Me Too!! In article <4678@zen.berkeley.edu>, woan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ronald S. Woan) writes: >I am told by some that I may be able to solve my problems with a low-level >reformat of the hard-disk, but I do not have the software to do so. If anyone >happens to have a PD formatter, please let me know... f anyone has one of these PD or shareware low-level formatters that would work on a Zenith 241 (not a 248) could you please send it to me also. I do a lot of intense disk writing and have reformatted my 40 Mbyte OSI hard disk a few times. When this is done I have been getting more and more bad sectors and such every time. For preventative reasons I wish to really format the hard disk to get it back close to factory specs. Thanks in Advance ihnp4!alberta!auvax!kevinc (Kevin Crocker Athabasca University) Do our employers have opinions or is that what we get paid for!