ZERO FILL AND LOW LEVEL FORMAT

I think low level format is reserverd for those old IDE/MFM hard drives and some SCSI drives. For data security, zero fill data wiping is what you want if you don't want any want any recovering/unerasing of the drive.

WHEN I HAVE A COMPUTER THAT IS ACTING STRANGE I USUALLY ZERO FILL THE HARD DRIVE. THEN PARTITION AND FORMAT IT. WHAT ABOUT LOW LEVEL FORMAT? SOME WEB SITES CLAIM THAT LOW LEVEL IS THE SAME AS ZERO FILL. I DO NOT THINK SO. AS LONG AS THE HARD DRIVE IS IN GOOD CONDITION THE ZERO FILL HAS RESTORED RELIABILITY AND STABILITY FOR ME.