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Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

I have a generic hdd that has a few bad blocks. The manufacturer's site does not have any llf/zero-fill utilities.

Can anyone recommend a generic shareware or freeware utility that I can download to use on this sucker? I am able to boot to XP on another drive but would like to make this drive the bootable drive.

Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :

No, that's true.

Actually, I just want to see if I can get something a little faster than either the slow format in windows or e2fsck -c in linux. [Smile]

zero-fill utilities are also OS independent, I believe. Since I'm going to be using this drive on two OSs, it would be nice to only have to format once.