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46. Low level format tool for hard drives, restore borked drives

Sun Oct 21, 2012, 07:16 AM

Oct 2012

It wont fix every drive but I have restored some the OS wouldn't recognize with this.

You will have to partition and do a regular format after using this.

Can take a long time on large drives, it writes to every byte on the drive.

http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/

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