Newbie seeking help
Hi,
Can anybody recommend a program for low level formatting. Gerry |
Hi there,
Welcome to the forum, hope we can nudge you to the answers you seek :) Okay, umm, define "low level formatting", please... I found this in the Arch Wiki, of course, I dont know what distro you use... Arch is pretty deep into the system and I suspect the instructions to be pretty universal... Melissa |
There is no low level format for modern hard drives. What are you trying to achieve?
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Welome. There are some fancier utilities for partitioning and formatting. parted is one that you can run via the shell. gparted is the graphical equivalent.
There are others, too. What are you trying to do in regards to the disk formatting? |
I normally use windows 10 but I would like to ubuntu 14.04 which I have loaded on my other machine.
I also have this hard drive which has lost all it's details. On plugging it into the usb socket it shows Name: My Passport Type: Folder (inode/directory) Contents: nothing Location: /media/gerry Volume: My Passport 79.5 MB used 400.0 GB free Total capacity: 401.1 GB Filesystem type: Is there anyway I can recover this hard drive. Gerry |
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