Free software for lowlevel formating
My new hard drive crashed yesterday while I was trying to format the second partition.
Now, not only can I not boot it up, but I get a hard drive failure, and the computer locks before it can boot from the CD-Rom.
I'm pretty sure if I do a lowlevel format, that will fix the drive.
I'm looking for good links for free software that will do low level formmating and diagnostic.
Now, not only can I not boot it up, but I get a hard drive failure, and the computer locks before it can boot from the CD-Rom.
I'm pretty sure if I do a lowlevel format, that will fix the drive.
I'm looking for good links for free software that will do low level formmating and diagnostic.
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I just tried the diagnostic utility in the Maxtor web site, and it seems the drive has a physical failure, which can not be corrected via lowlevel format.
Thanks for the links
Thanks for the links
your welcome
IF you loosed any data you can recover those with getdataback.
Best is getdataback
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21791572/Recovering-files-From-Hard-drive.html
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21771157/Recover-files-from-unallocated.html
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21792256/After-reinstalling-Backup-Exec-10d-can-not-view-resources-local-or-otherwise.html
Try with getdataback.
http://www.runtime.org/
BR Dushan