re ide low level format in article apr organpipe uug arizona edu shenx helium gas uug arizona edu xiangxin shen writes 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 well i have a different story to recount i attempted to low level format a wd mb disk about a year ago when i understood my error i contacted wd they told me that i hadn t hurt the drive and that i should just run fdisk and format s on it it was fine also i understand that western digital s bbs may have some low level formatting routines specifically available for ide drives you probably need to talk to them and get the straight scoop george george j pandelios internet gjp sei cmu edu software engineering institute usenet sei gjp fifth avenue voice pittsburgh pa fax disclaimer these opinions are my own and do not reflect those of the software engineering institute its sponsors customers clients affiliates or carnegie mellon university in fact any resemblence of these opinions to any individual living or dead fictional or real is purely coincidental so there
