Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
June 21st, 2008, 21:21
When I formatted this Maxtor hard disk, it generated a format error message. After formatting is done the computer can not read the dard disk anymore.
Questions
1. Is there anyway to fix the problem?
2. I heard that some hard disk can not low level formatted. It will damage its sector alignment. If this the case, what can I do?
June 22nd, 2008, 17:41
Low level format is used for writing zero at every sector.
June 24th, 2008, 3:32
Dear ray chen,
I think there must be some serious bad sectors on your Maxtor HDD, and these bad sectors block you to format it.
I suggest you to try to use HD Doctor for Maxtor of SalvationDATA to repair the bad sectors first.
Regards
Selina
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