From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ERtjo-0000ux-T8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:50:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9IFmEfB020679; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:48:14 GMT Received: from web31713.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31713.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.201.193]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9IFhTtt028010 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:43:30 GMT Received: (qmail 6769 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Oct 2005 15:42:27 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=gwduhcrrbm/L/aQnaskpBxwfTij2nR5WtWHgPUCI1o/pmCNyMJGh41VJCrfY28ZDbJ5Fr0HNfNzbfJZVhSShRKVqJd6sRblFUBmb5hYD9wcH2xZqtvpQVzTOqdxBTjcdpF0Uv4q4KPY7rL/f6mULrhWbLg/ZDue1eENRou39iCY= ; Message-ID: <20051018154227.6767.qmail@web31713.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.228.98.152] by web31713.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:42:27 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 08:42:27 -0700 (PDT) From: maxim wexler Subject: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: bad45c8e-1b27-4eb7-b602-c6c82ecdfbff X-Archives-Hash: 10a4e6bcc80cfed7160554929fb0be33 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list