Af for this drive, it appears to be truly dead. It got to about the same spot that the windows installer did when formatting. Seems they really did boff it up good.<BR><BR>Thanks for the tool, though!

You cannot low-level format Quantum ATA disk drives. However, you can use a utility such as DataEraser to purge the drive of a corrupted master boot record, a boot block virus, or to clear the ...

What is Low-Level Formatting People often confuse Low-Level Formatting with quick formatting. Quick Format is meant to build a new file allocation table—nothing more.