![]() ![]() Supported Manufacturers: Maxtor, Hitachi, Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba, Fujitsu, IBM, Quantum, Western Digital, and almost any other not listed here.Supported interfaces: S-ATA (SATA), IDE (E-IDE), SCSI, SAS, USB, FIREWIRE.HDD Low Level Format Tool is a utility for low-level hard disk drive formatting. If you are looking for a commercial license for 3 or more seats (PCs), please contact us and we will provide a discount. $27.00 per seat for commercial or professional use: Order Commercial license.Just $3.30 for personal/home use (no speed limit): Order Personal license.Free for personal/home use (speed is capped at 180 GB per hour which is 50 MB/s).Not sure where the discrepancy came from other than the drive is really having problems. These two attempts were done on the same computer. During the second attempt, the formatting rate was 24Mb/s. ![]() The formatting would have taken 5 days if it had not stopped automatically. What could be worse than bad sectors to stop the formatting process?Īnother observation is that during the first attempt to format the drive, the formatting rate was 1.7 Mb/s, which was extremely slow. I'd never heard of such a problem before. In my case, the formatting process simply stopped. I thought one of the function of low lever formatting is to mapped out bad sectors. Probably the drive was not recognized at all. I forgot what result I got from the first computer. The 58% result was obtained on the second computer. ![]() Since the drive had run for several hours before stopping, I believe the USB port had been providing enough power to the drive and the problem is the drive, not the power. The formatting stopped after several hours and at 58% completion. ![]()
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