Paul Wankadia wrote in a message to David Chord:
 DC> It is possible to damage hardware through software, it'd (usually)
 DC> just take a really stupid user for it to actually work :-)
 PW> Perhaps you can tell me what FORMAT.EXE does, David.
AFAICG it would format the drive. Not actually hardware damage, more like 
software damage - or annahilation :-)
Now that I think about it, low-level formatting an IDE drive (specially the 
earlier ones) would do some pretty hefty damage and mean the drive had to be 
sent back to the factory (or to someone with special software for that drive) 
to re-format it correctly.
I don't have any software evidence of this, but I *do* have a HDD that had 
this done to it lying around - usefll befehore rubbish after.
I believe most modern IDE's detect an attempt to low-leve format them and 
perform a high-level format while pretending it's low-level.
Cya..
Dave
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