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Old January 5th, 2009, 01:08 AM     #9 (permalink)
zepper
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The WD Tools calls Zero Filling "High Level Formatting". so it should be under the formatting menu. Some tools also mistakenly call it low level formatting which an end user shouldn't be able to do on PATA or SATA drives - I believe the drive's BIOS prevents true LLFing. Haven't been able to do that since the days of MFM/RLL drives...

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