What are the utilities for reformatting a hard drive?

Question

Hard disks

Previously, for dos there was such a utility from norton utilites, calibrate. Great stuff. And now, for all sorts of different fats, are there any?

Answer 1

VICTORIA is an analogue of Calibrate
. To work with service areas of disks, software and hardware systems are used, which cost as much as a wing from a Boeing (or even two wings).

Answer 2

And the point is, there is no low-level work with the disk now, so you can simply format it in Windows

Answer 3

utilities for reformatting a hard drive ... norton utilities, calibrate. Great stuff

I have little experience with hard drives of that time, but I believe that in general there are few people who have it in abundance in the expanses of the former USSR. I tend to think so because in those days foreign personal computers were too much of a rarity. And when they began to appear in our country more massively, technology had already moved forward, sending a number of hard drive manufacturers into history, whose names many had not even heard of.
As far as I know, Calibrate from the Norton Utilities package was so popular largely due to the fact that with its help it was possible to choose the optimal interleave value for the hard drive. This was clearly worth doing for RLL and MFM hard drives with a capacity in megabytes - the data transfer rate could well have been tripled.
It's difficult to estimate exactly, but I think that, despite its capabilities, the Calibrate utility lost its relevance by about the mid-90s. The "average" hard drive of those times grew noticeably and no longer required such attention from the user. Actually, therefore, in Norton Utilities designed for Windows, you are unlikely to find the same calibrat.exe .
Not even the newest discs are very different from the discs of those times.
In the most modern ones, hell and Israel are in full swing - a 4-core processor on the board has become the norm, elements like a translator appear.
Due to the difference in read and write head sizes, new write technologies such as SMR are being introduced. You can see the result visually here: https://habr.com/ru/post/529860/
To answer briefly, it is not entirely clear what you mean by "reformatting".
Is your hard drive formatted wrong? How exactly? And what do you want to reformat it to?
It would be nice if you could specify the exact model of the disk, as well as what problem you want to solve.
If it is related to the loss and recovery of data, then no formatting (and related operations) will help, rather make it worse.
If you need to somehow check the hard drive, take the R.tester , it has the ability to detail the test results as much as possible, in our opinion it is impossible to make the detail higher.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Previously, for dos there was such a utility from norton utilites, calibrate. Great stuff.

And now, for all sorts of different fats, are there any?

So do you need to format FAT or hard drive? You seem to be confusing the concept of a file system and a partition table.
Low-level formatting of hard drives has already dropped out as a class. Previously, the hard drive controller was on board the motherboard, and it controlled the CHS parameters and positioning.
Now each disk has its own controller, which already gives out virtual values ​​​​outward and itself remaps bad sectors. Access to its service commands is proprietary information, and often, in principle, low-level formatting is hardly possible at home.
And you can "format" to FAT simply in Windows, in the properties of the disk.