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This is a discussion about western digital in the Windows Hardware category; bold text YA I WAS WOUNDERING IF I DID A LOW LEVEL FORMAT CAN I PUT A FRESH COPY OF XP PRO FRESH INSTALL ON IT AND NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEMS DOING SO ?
bold text YA I WAS WOUNDERING IF I DID A LOW LEVEL FORMAT
CAN I PUT A FRESH COPY OF XP PRO FRESH INSTALL ON IT AND NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEMS DOING SO ?
CAN I PUT A FRESH COPY OF XP PRO FRESH INSTALL ON IT AND NOT HAVE ANY PROBLEMS DOING SO ?
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These days LLF's are done at the factory and cannot be done by a user. For XP, you can use CDROM drive setup to delete any existing partitions before creating a new one to install XP on it.
http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/low-level-format.html
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/ata_llfmt_what.html
http://www.ariolic.com/activesmart/low-level-format.html
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/faq/ata_llfmt_what.html
Originally posted by Alec§taar:
Quote:Pete, you SURE about that? I mean, doesn't Western Digital's "LifeGuard Tools" that ship w/ their drives provide a low-level formatting routine containing program??
APK
Sort of, the Data Lifeguard tools can do a Zero Fill, quick or full to the drive, be it PATA or SATA. It can do a drive diagnostic as well. I guess it depends on what is considered a low level format
Quote:Pete, you SURE about that? I mean, doesn't Western Digital's "LifeGuard Tools" that ship w/ their drives provide a low-level formatting routine containing program??
APK
Sort of, the Data Lifeguard tools can do a Zero Fill, quick or full to the drive, be it PATA or SATA. It can do a drive diagnostic as well. I guess it depends on what is considered a low level format
