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wdegroot
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Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:48 pm |
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several years ago i managed to heal/repait a wd caviar drive
I looked and tried several programs but they all don't work
I THOUGHT as a packrat i had every program saved
but obviously not
anyone have such a low level "formatter" |
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Puckdropper
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Joined: 02 Oct 2004
Posts: 767
Location: Not in Chicago
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Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:18 am |
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Sure do... but it's in the BIOS chip of the computer. Sorry. |
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bear
Joined: 04 Oct 2004
Posts: 205
Location: 57�59'N 15�39'E
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Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:57 am |
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several years ago i managed to heal/repait a wd caviar drive
I looked and tried several programs but they all don't work
I THOUGHT as a packrat i had every program saved
but obviously not
anyone have such a low level "formatter" |
Try these http://bmorell.com/files/hddtools.rar
LF is a low level formatter
HDDregenerator I have not tried.
The best is to use them from Hiren's bootCD7v..6
PM me for DL addy  |
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wdegroot
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Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:55 pm |
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in the past I used the low level format in the award bios that was found
of some older , even pentium, systems,
it seemed to have little or no effect on
ide drives,
I used a wd tool of some kind back in 1989,
and it worked on a cabiar drive. |
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wdegroot
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Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:16 pm |
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bear
Joined: 04 Oct 2004
Posts: 205
Location: 57�59'N 15�39'E
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Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:02 pm |
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Jorg
Joined: 03 Dec 2005
Posts: 41
Location: Netherlands
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Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:04 pm |
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nm... |
Last edited by Jorg on Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:56 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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wdegroot
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Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:35 pm |
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I have a legal spinrite 3 and a couple of generic diskmanagers
hirims? boot disk d/l location would be n
I could "read all about it" on his site but not d/l it. |
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bear
Joined: 04 Oct 2004
Posts: 205
Location: 57�59'N 15�39'E
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Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:51 pm |
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Check your mail  |
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wdegroot
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Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:17 pm |
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I ran hddregeneratior on a box full of older wd drives
seems , at least with those that could be formatted, that hd regenerator
winds up with the same count of bad areas and amounts as format.
howeverm in some instances, it fixes some bad sectors, and clears the disk or most, if not all errors.
sometimes it reports areas restored but the error caunt is the same
I write down the number of bad sectore before and after and also run chkdsk on the drive to get a summary.
useful? I think so , bot not much different than NDD or spinrite. simpler interface, |
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