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ashiekh
 Post subject: Reformatting a magnetically erased drive
PostPosted: November 30th, 2018, 10:20 
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Can HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool bring back a magnetically erased drive?
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 Post subject: Re: Reformatting a magnetically erased drive
PostPosted: November 30th, 2018, 15:20 
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ashiekh wrote:
Can HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool bring back a magnetically erased drive?

No, you would need a servo track writer.

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ashiekh
 Post subject: Re: Reformatting a magnetically erased drive
PostPosted: November 30th, 2018, 17:14 
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With a degaussing machine; people sell such drives on ebay and I was wondering if they could be brought back to life.
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ashiekh
 Post subject: Re: Reformatting a magnetically erased drive
PostPosted: November 30th, 2018, 18:33 
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Good to know; thanks
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pc2005
 Post subject: Re: Reformatting a magnetically erased drive
PostPosted: December 18th, 2018, 17:15 
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fzabkar wrote:
ashiekh wrote:
Can HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool bring back a magnetically erased drive?

No, you would need a servo track writer.

I'm not a professional, but shouldn't it be possible to write servo marks without servo tract writer? (just with a special firmware but with the normal heads)

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