On 10/18/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everbody, > > Maxtor suggests I do a low-level format of my flaky > Diamond 16 drive using their Powermax tool. > Unfortunately it doesn't give you the option of > sparing one partition or the other -- it does the > whole thing. > > I strongly suspect the problem lies on the first half > of the drive where XP-pro used to reside. Is there a > way to do a low-level format of part of a drive while > leaving the rest intact? If you have the drive partitioned you can
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdaX Where hdaX is the partition to zero out. This should be equivalent to a low level format. PS: Have you tried running badblocks on it? -- Regards Karol Krzak -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
