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| Author: | ashiekh [ November 30th, 2018, 10:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Reformatting a magnetically erased drive |
Can HDD LLF Low Level Format Tool bring back a magnetically erased drive? |
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| Author: | fzabkar [ November 30th, 2018, 15:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reformatting a magnetically erased drive |
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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| Author: | ashiekh [ November 30th, 2018, 17:14 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reformatting a magnetically erased drive |
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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| Author: | ashiekh [ November 30th, 2018, 18:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reformatting a magnetically erased drive |
Good to know; thanks |
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| Author: | pc2005 [ December 18th, 2018, 17:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Reformatting a magnetically erased drive |
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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