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From: burton@parcvax.Xerox.COM (Philip M. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: low-level format
Message-ID: <595@parcvax.Xerox.COM>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 12:43:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Oct 30 12:43:17 1987
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In article <4678@zen.berkeley.edu> woan@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Ronald S. Woan) writes:
>My hard disk recently seems to have blown-up or something. Overnight
> ...
>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... By the way the hard disk
>is a trashy CMI 20 meg. in one of those first 2000 AT's to roll off the assembly
Consider yourself lucky you got this far with that drive in your machine.
You got three years out of it, more than most guys.  By now, disk prices
are so much lower than they were in 1984 or 1985, that you can easily save
yourself the problems with that drive by getting a new 30 or 40 MB drive.

If your new drive formats to more than 32 MB, just go to DOS 3.3, and you
get multiple hard disk partitions.  By the way, you'll still need a low-
level formatter.



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