Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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I like to use hard drives when possible, as a hard drive makes vintage computers sound and feel more real. Therefore, I've purchased four old hard drives on eBay (the place I buy the things I later regret™): two 5.25" full-height hard drives, one 5.25" half-height hard drive, and one 3.5" hard card (via the 5150).

Let's try to low-level format all these drives!

Will any of these drives low-level format? Will all of them spin up? Will I get tired of rebooting DOS? You'll have to watch to find out!

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