re ide low level format in article c h yl f news cso uiuc edu mandel romulus ehs uiuc edu hector mandel writes i accidentally tried to low level format my western digital caviar drive is there a public domain or shareware utility available that will allow me to fix it thanks i am no expert on this but i am pretty sure there is no way to recover this ide drive has mapping information written directly on drives when you low level format it the information itself is gone as well i don t think you can get it back unless you send it back to western digital and ask them to refurbish it for you jim
