um a low level format is always the entire drive. It basically returns the drive to factory default. AKA all 0's. A high level format would be what your talking about which would be the same as reformatting a partition. as fdisk would do.
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 08:42 -0700, maxim wexler 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? > > -mw > > > > __________________________________ > Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- Douglas James Dunn .-. 468 South 7th street /v\ L I N U X Indiana, PA 15701 // \\ >Phear the Penguin< cell: (724) 316-8266 /( )\ Indiana University ^^-^^ of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. . .vir. d$b .d$$$$$$b. .cd$$b. .d$$b. d$$$$$$$$$$$b .d$$b. .d$$b. $$$$( )$$$b d$$$()$$$. d$$$$$$$b Q$$$$$$$P$$$P.$$$$$$$b. .$$$$$$$b. Q$$$$$$$$$$B$$$$$$$$P" d$$$PQ$$$$b. $$$$. .$$$P' `$$$ .$$$P' `$$$ "$$$$$$$P Q$$$$$$$b d$$$P Q$$$$b $$$$b $$$$b..d$$$ $$$$b..d$$$ d$$$$$$P" "$$$$$$$$ Q$$$ Q$$$$ $$$$$ `Q$$$$$$$P `Q$$$$$$$P $$$$$$$P `""""" "" "" Q$$$P "Q$$$P" "Q$$$P" `Q$$P" """
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