what to do to make a low level formatting in linux

[memot]

i have the lastest version of mandrake and i want to make a low level format to my harddrive ?
what program should i use

[Sterling_Aug]

DOS or the manufacturers disk diagnostics floppy.

[AllGamer]

when it comes to LOW LEVEL disk Format, there's no such thing as Linux/DOS/Windows

they are all the same, cuz it's hardware based, it just the Executable that runs in difference OSes

using manufacturer utility is the safest :t

[memot]

yeah but it said that the western digital i can only create a booteable disk from win95/win98 i dont have any of those
i have win xp and i just tried to conect my linux harddrive as a slave and my win xp as a master the computer didnt reconize it

[Midknyte]

download a bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com

get zap and just zap the drive. no need to do a full low level format.

http://service.boulder.ibm.com/storage/hddtech/zap.exe

If you really want to do a low level, then go to the manufacturer's website for their utility.

[Foggy]

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp :t

[crossedup]

i used the seagate startup disk to zerofill a fujitsu drive just a couple days ago

drive had bad sectors before but all seems fine now

the seagate disk wouldnt allow me to setup the drive as it didnt detect it as a seagate but everything else it would do okay

disk (http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html)