[DM-MUG] Low Level Format

Martin Gary Hood mghood1 at mchsi.com
Tue Aug 22 05:56:36 CDT 2006


I have had several great ideas and I thank you for taking the time to  
repy.

Gary
On Aug 21, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Matthew W. wrote:

> I would place it in an external case and attempt to resurrect it.  
> If that failed, place it on an internal bus with another drive as  
> the boot disc and see if that offers any advantages. You can also  
> put it into a FireWire-equipped Mac, boot that Mac to FireWire  
> Target Disc Mode (holding down "T" key upon a restart), and use a  
> 2nd Mac connected via FireWire cable as the re-formatting  
> controller. If not, the drive is probably dead and needs to be  
> replaced.
>
> Matthew
>
> On Aug 21, 2006, at 9:17 AM, Thorgrim wrote:
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>>> The problem started when Disk Warrior was writing
>>> a replacement file and I had the electricity flicker for a second  
>>> or two.
>>
>> Ouch!  I had this happen once.  I've used a UPS (Uninterruptible  
>> Power Supply) on all of my machines ever since.
>>
>> David McLaughlin
>>
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