Comments on: Hard Disk Low Level Format

By: Jay Patil

Jay Patil — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:49:30 +0000

do not use this

By: anil manekar

anil manekar — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:38:45 +0000

I think that low level formatting is a last way to recover from bad sectors.but this process will harmful for your system so,may be don’t use low level formatting.

By: ScarecroW

ScarecroW — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:50:54 +0000

A low level format is used to repair bad sectors from a drive and to clear it back to factory default, if you are experiencing issues with your drive freezing, crashing or losing sectors randomly then a low level format is a warranted course of action but if you are just trying to get rid of data you dont want others to see or to be able to recover then using other programs that can run during normal windows/linux/unix operation can be downloaded from several sites on the internet. With that being said if you are needing to perform a low level format then please see your drive manufacturers site for the appropriate tools due to the possibility of damaging your drive while using a third party program.

By: Bilal

Bilal — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:49:19 +0000

To do low level format and to completely wipe out HDD data. Use the format software from http://www.killdisk.com, download the CD ISO image , burn to CD, ad boot from CD , the rest can be found in the menu..

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:42:19 +0000

Dave, you must repartition your hdd to see the partitions (make sense??) Mahesh get @active killdisk.

By: krishna

krishna — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:24:09 +0000

By: mahesh

mahesh — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:08:40 +0000

i want to do Low level format give me step how would I do that?

By: Armando

Armando — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:10:25 +0000

DONT DO THAT !!!!!!

The electrostatic shock is possible that may cause damage the HDD as it did for my 200 Gig MAXTOR HDD and it fucked off.

By: Krishna

Krishna — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:28:53 +0000

My Toshiba HDD of notebook is formatted and it is detected only in BIOS, can not be used as slave HDD, if used primary HDD won’t boot. Any solution mail me at: krishna.net.np@gmail.com

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:43:47 +0000

Sorry DIDN’T Recognise any drives

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:43:18 +0000

Tried to use it did recognise any hard drives. Limited user functionality.

By: DAVE

DAVE — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:37:59 +0000

I have used this program and it failed to format my 320 GB Seagate Hard disk.

The program runs for an hour long but and gave a hard disk format confirmation as well but I can still see the partitions and even the data as well.

HAHA…. This program do not works at all.

By: Toby Wilkins

Toby Wilkins — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:29:54 +0000

Rarst – “Low level format is total overkill for secure erasing of data”

No its not, if you dont do a low level format or destroy the drive physically most of your data is still there. You dont want to sell a drive on ebay with private info on the drive.

By: paul

paul — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:15:05 +0000

got hdd that crashed,will trying this program help to sort it out?have tried normal formatting but hasn’t worked.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:28:45 +0000

Low level format is total overkill for secure erasing of data. It is not needed for this (mentioned programs for erasing do just fine) and could (if used repeatedly WILL) damage HDD.

It is really used for repairing drives and actually requires person with knowledge of what it can and what can’t fix.