[ale] low level format

[Chuck Payne]

Thanks guys, I am going to see if I can use the Boot DVD. I love to
get spinrite, but I have beg and steal to the money to replace the bad
drive. The CFO of my family looks at my computer as toy and not a tool
to improve myself.

Chuck

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Brian Mathis
<brian.mathis+ale at betteradmin.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I haven't done a low level format since the days when I ran only SCSI.
>> Can I do a low level format on SATA Drives? I am trying to see if a
>> drive is really toast, or can be save. I am running Linux on the host
>> that it is on.
>>
>> --
>> Terror PUP a.k.a
>> Chuck "PUP" Payne
>
>
> The discussion seems to have taken a turn directly into "secure
> wiping" which has nothing to do with what most people are talking
> about when they say "low level format", and even when people say that,
> that's not what they really want either.  There's almost never a time
> when you wanted to, or even could, do a real "low level" format.
> That's a factory-only operation.
>
> You mentioned that you want to see if your drive is bad.  In Linux,
> the way to do this is to run the "badblocks" program.  You can choose
> a destructive or non-destructive.  You can run it on a whole device,
> or a partition.  You can also run it through e2fsck, if you have an
> existing filesystem on there.
>
> Another option is "spinrite", which works really well and can almost
> perform miracles for recovering data.  It's able to locate bad blocks
> as well as recover data.  Spinrite is a commercial product though.
>
>
> ❧ Brian Mathis
>
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