Hi Kwag,
Thanks for the quick response. I downloaded MAXLLF.exe
and tried a low level format on a 20GB Maxtor drive
and kept getting...Divide Error. So I contacted Maxtor
and their answer was that firmware installed on all their
hard drives is used at system boot-up to identify the HD
with information such as manufactor, model, serial number,
cyclinders, sectors, etc. They say, if the degaussed used was
strong enough it probably destroyed the firmware in addition
to erasing the data part of the drive. In short, they claim
the drive is worthless. Well, I learned another lesson about
if it's too good to be true
-BP