So i upgrade my replaytv 4040 to a 120 gig maxtor 5400 rpm drive 3 months ago. Yesterday i decided i need more room so i bought an 80 gig maxtor 5400 rpm. I did the upgrade and it worked. Only thing is this:
The first drive was new. i did not low level format. i just put it in. It works fine for 5 months now. the second drive was new as well, except i formatted it to ntfs and used it for a day in windows xp, then deceided to use it in the replay instead to i removed the ntfs partition by using fdisk.
i did not low level format this drive either.
i installed it in the replay and it worked. no probs so far.
i know i probably should have low leveled formatted but for the life of me i could figure out how to. i had the LLF utility from maxtor but could not get it to recogznide the drive to format it. i was so aggrivated. i tried and tried. so i guess what i am getting at here is, if in the future i have problems and need to format this baby how do i low level format with ease? Is there software thats easy to use to do it?
The first drive was new. i did not low level format. i just put it in. It works fine for 5 months now. the second drive was new as well, except i formatted it to ntfs and used it for a day in windows xp, then deceided to use it in the replay instead to i removed the ntfs partition by using fdisk.
i did not low level format this drive either.
i installed it in the replay and it worked. no probs so far.
i know i probably should have low leveled formatted but for the life of me i could figure out how to. i had the LLF utility from maxtor but could not get it to recogznide the drive to format it. i was so aggrivated. i tried and tried. so i guess what i am getting at here is, if in the future i have problems and need to format this baby how do i low level format with ease? Is there software thats easy to use to do it?