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Are you meant to low level format when you get one? ( i only formatted with
the xp install cd)
I ask as maxtor suggest a low level format may stop my 'noise' problem

Isildur wrote:
> Are you meant to low level format when you get one? ( i only formatted with
> the xp install cd)
> I ask as maxtor suggest a low level format may stop my 'noise' problem
>
>

No. You should not need to zero-fill a new drive.

(They were referring to "zero-fill" not low level format, which normally
would only be done by the factory.)

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