Re: Need disk error checker for Windows XP

D-W-S <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:53:51 +0200
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Porpoise wrote on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 15:01:27 +0100:

> Mike, here's data that would indicate that SpinRite are not telling the 
> whole truth (presumably in order to sell their product). Low Level 
> formatting is done by the drive manufacturer and cannot be done by the OS

Just because Windows can't doesn't mean that other O/S'es can't.

Many PC BIOSes have that built-in too.