Desperate situation

[Mike McCarty]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 10 February 2006 16:41, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 

[snip]

>>back, write another pattern. wipes all the data.) Depending
>>on the software, some will even let you low-level format the
>>drive. Sometimes this is enough to resurrect a drive.
>>
> 
> Hmm - when I'm sure that I can't get anything else useful off it, I'll try 
> that.  I've got FC4 installing at the moment on the new drive.  I installed 
> the old one as slave, but the FC4 installer tells me that it can't read the 
> partition table.  That's odd, because knoppix could read it.

Depends on what is meant by a "low level format". A true low-
level format should never be done on a voice coil technology
(everything since 1988 or so) disc except by the factory.

Mike
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