On Tuesday 31 January 2006 04:35, Peter Collier wrote:
I may be getting this wrong but I recall something from years gone back when a 40 meg hard drive has as big as you could get for a home pc. In those days, I think they said then, that you weren't suppose to low level reformat a drive once it had been done. I could be mistaken, years of memory eroding away, or is it a case that it's ok to do that nowadays. If so, how do you do a low level format? It used to be an option in the bios all those years ago but I've not seen it for nearly 20 years.
Hi Peter, I'm sure you're aware that "low level formatting" is done only once at the factory today, but the term still seems to endure in the field -- which is why I keep throwing quotes around it. :-) In the context of this discussion, it really means properly erasing the contents of a partition before reformatting and using it as a system disk. - Carl