lollygrl 0 Posted January 6, 2005 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 ? Share this post Link to post
peterh 1 Posted January 6, 2005 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 Share this post Link to post
jmmijo 1 Posted January 6, 2005 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 Share this post Link to post
