A similar subject came up in a local newsgroup here a few weeks ago. I have
attached one message below that might be of interest.
>> You done exactly right on everything except LLF which is big NO
>> No on modern drives, potientially losing it!
>
>I wish just for once that someone would actually cite a specific drive
>model for which this is true. I've LLF'd many of them with no ill
>effects.
>
Forwarded message:
-----Original Message-----
From: Rod Speed <rodspeed_at_ozemail.com.au>
Newsgroups: aus.computers.ibm-pc
Date: Saturday, 23 January 1999 19:58
Subject: Re: FDISK-Write protect error
>
>Joseph Henle <jhen_at_mailzone.com> wrote in message
>news:78bhko$s73$1_at_east42.supernews.com...
>
>> I am trying to fdisk a hard drive which indicated there is a non dos
>> partition. When I try to fdisk i get " write protect error writting
fixed
>> disk" I have also tried fdisk/mbr and i get same message. Any
suggestions?
>
>Probably best to completely clean out the first physical sector on the
>hard drive and the first few tracks and start again from scratch with
fdisk.
>Fdisk can get rather confused in some situations and thats the easy fix.
>
>The simplest way to do this is to use clearhdd from
>http://www.sec.samsung.co.kr/support/faqs/faq_view.cgi?no=99&kno=3
>
>Note that this claims its a low level format utility.
>It isnt, all it does is write zeros in the first few
>tracks. It just describes what it does rather poorly.
>
>
Received on Tue Feb 09 1999 - 02:05:38 GMT