[excuse delay in reply. thread got move to archive in error. just now found.] Markus Kesaromous wrote: > Why I need to do low level formatting? Disk monitor is reporting 93 > uncorrectable sector errors. then you need to get tools from oem. > Is that a good enough reason? :) one of many. > PS: If I had something on the disk to hide from prying eyes, I would resort > to a very simple solution: break open the drive (very easyli done), and place > the platters on the fire grill for about 60 minutes. Ask a physics > professor. See what he has to say about it :) 60 minutes on grill is a lot loner than needed. when i want to totally destroy a disk platter, i burn off oxide coating using lighter fluid. works just as good and does not stink up grill. besides, who wants their stakes smelling and tasting like oxide. if i want to reuse platter, i use a big magnet i have from a klystron tube radar unit and reformat low level. tho i have not done so lately with ide disk drives. worked great with mfm. as for asking a physics prof, i really do not need to ask his opinion of something that i have known for a long time. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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