low level formatting

dcyphure · Post by **dcyphure** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:21 am

i downloaded diagnostic tools for my wd raptor and i'm not seeing any information in it on how to low level format my drive, i made the floppy but how do i just low level format the drive

64bit · Post by **64bit** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 2:11 pm

There should be an option to "Write Zeros to all Sectors" or something close to that.

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 3:21 pm

Usually there is an option to do that in the BIOS aswell. It doesn't really accomplish anything though.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Sat Jul 02, 2005 4:35 pm

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

use this.

open source and does a great job.