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Sun Zi
March 17th, 2001, 03:34 AM
How can i low level format my secondary IDE maxtor drive? Do i really have to disconnect my primary IDE hard disk and connect my maxtor hard drive to primary and format it?

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AlienDyne
March 17th, 2001, 03:55 AM
No. You don't need to disconnect any drive.
You just have to be carefull which one you will LLF.

Do you have a LLF utility or is there a LLF Option on your BIOS?

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Sun Zi
March 17th, 2001, 04:47 AM
I've visit the maxtor's website and found some LLF utlilty but I don't really know what kind of my hard disk is. How do i check?

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rob_b
March 17th, 2001, 07:02 AM
The best way is to physically look at the drive & get the model number off it, or else you could try a diag prog like SISoft Sandra.

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korpse
March 17th, 2001, 07:21 AM
If you have a fairly new motherboard, during boot when it is detecting IDE devices it will display the model number of your hard drives.

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Sowulo
March 17th, 2001, 11:18 AM
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sun Zi:
I've visit the maxtor's website and found some LLF utlilty but I don't really know what kind of my hard disk is. How do i check?

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Your Maxtor Hard drive has a model number on the label. If it reads something like 91010D6 you would use the 9000 series utility. Just download the one that matches your drive.

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