ok i've got an old quantum 3.2Gb HDD which has got a few bad sectors but windows 2000 will not successfully complete a NTFS format on the partition. I've tried to format it with fat32 and still the ...

I am going to be selling my 80GB maxtor HD which is formatted NTFS. Now, I could just reformat it and that would erase all the data. But I think data still recoverable, no? Do I low level format it so ...