I am trying to get a 16GB SSD, in an Asus eee PC 900 netbook, to be restored via Norton Ghost. I am able to run Ghost from a USB flash drive. It will load the restore file to 99% and then say that some sectors fail to read.



I know that I could just replace the drive, and that might be what ultimately happens. I would like to try a low level format of the drive first, but I have nothing but USB ports to access the drive. The OS is long gone. The Low Level Format Tool 2.36 build 1181 comes as an executable that installs on a working system. Can someone help me figure out how to do a lo level format off of a USB flash drive?

Thanks for your help.

Use a bootable cd or another computer. Hirens has mini xp.

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Is there anything on the Magic Boot Floppy with MHDD, that would allow for a low level format, or some other function that would deal with the bad sectors?