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Just woundering whats the diffrence in formatting a hardrive via format C: command and a low level format. What is a low level format? and whats the command. can someone explain cheers
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here ya go, ziggy....this should help explain it.

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Wow Valis, that's a pretty awesome site thanks for the link.


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