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- From: pan@athena.mit.edu (W. H. Pan)
- Subject: Help needed!--Media Errors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.210146.3873@athena.mit.edu>
- Summary: Media Errors
- Keywords: media errors
- Sender: pan@athena.mit.edu
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:01:46 GMT
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- Hi,
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- I ran in to some problems the other night while trying to perform a low level
- format on my internal harddrive. Maybe you could advise me on the situation.
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- I was having some Media Errors on my internal drive, and people suggested to me
- that performing a low level format on that drive would eliminate those
- problems. So I used the program sdform to format the drive. The program
- said that it would take about 5 minutes to format the 100MB disk. But the
- formatting was done in 5 seconds. I then repeated the process with the disk
- program and the same thing occurred. Am I doing anything wrong here? I
- don't think dong a low level format would only take 5 seconds!
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- Ugh, I just want to get rid of those media erros!
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- Please respond by email and I'll post a summary. Thanks.
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- =Howard Pan=
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