What is a Low-Level Format

[NTDaws]

Guys, What's a Low-Level Format. Can it fix a fuc*ed up drive?

[zMeul]

a low level format will fill the drive with 0 erasing everything (partitions and data)

 

fucked up drive, how exactly, in what manner?

[Wolther]

7 minutes ago, Dawson Wehage said:

Guys, What's a Low-Level Format. Can it fix a fuc*ed up drive?

Low level formatting is a hard disk operation that should make recovering data from your storage devices impossible.  In what way is it fucked?

[NTDaws]

Just now, zMeul said:

a low level format will fill the drive with 0 erasing everything (partitions and data)

 

fucked up drive, how exactly, in what manner?

As in, corrupted

[zMeul]

Just now, Dawson Wehage said:

As in, corrupted

corrupted disk can have multiple sources, from bad RAM to a bad drive

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 minute ago, Dawson Wehage said:

As in, corrupted

Low level formatting will take care of that. In fact, a regular format will do the same thing.

 

The only thing a format won't fix is mechanical/electrical gremlins.

[NTDaws]

1 minute ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Low level formatting will take care of that. In fact, a regular format will do the same thing.

 

The only thing a format won't fix is mechanical/electrical gremlins.

Well I am only just seeing if it needs a low level format, I'm not 100% sure that its a mechanical problem, it's a SSD. It gets stuck at the boot screen even when your doing Windows Installs.

[xitywampas]

Try to set the SATA controller to IDE mode in the BIOS and see if it boots. If it does come back here with MB and SSD model numbers.