Bad sectors on a hard drive....low level format?

[arthurb1]

LLFing is no big deal, only hard to do with IDE and only dangerous if you turn off your computer during it...

 

[bigguy1]

Here is a way to write 0's to your hard drive. It is a fairly long article but it works like a charm.

http://www.winntmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=5327

bigguy1