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Subject: Re: low-level format
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Date: Wed, 4-Nov-87 09:26:00 EST
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/* Written  3:33 am  Oct 30, 1987 by woan@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP in inmet:comp.sys.ibm.pc */
/* ---------- "low-level format" ---------- */
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
line of IBM... 
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I assume, from this, that it is an AT that this problem is with. Well...

My former company had to figure out how to sand-blast a disk some while ago;
we had installed Xenix on an AT, and couldn't figure out any way to get it
off. The answer, we discovered after much research, was a disk called
something like "IBM PC AT Advanced Diagnostics", which is normally only
available to dealers. We purchased a copy (for something like $200 -- this
isn't necessarily a cheap solution), and that proved to have a low-level
format option. (Nice option, too -- you have to go through about six levels
of confirmation before it will actually sand-blast the disk).

				-- Justin du Coeur