Author Topic: A Cautionary Tale - Hard Drive strategies (Read 4400 times)

DoogUK · « **on:** February 10, 2009, 08:39:22 PM »

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SamuraiCrow wrote:
Low-level formatting is for SCSI drives. This is incompatible with all IDE drives regardless of their age.

Not true, when hard drives used to cost serious money i often bought back unusable IDE drives by low level formatting.

DoogUK · « **Reply #1 on:** February 10, 2009, 08:42:26 PM »

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SamuraiCrow wrote:
Low-level formatting is for SCSI drives. This is incompatible with all IDE drives regardless of their age.

Not true, when hard drives used to cost serious money i often bought back unusable IDE drives by low level formatting.