neil@ac.dal.ca (11/06/89)
Awhile ago (about 2 months) I read something about
formatting a hard disk with track 0 failure. I don't remember the
details of the solution. Could someone please aid a poor failing
hard disk and Email me this trick.
Thanks for any help
neil@ac.dal.caplim@hpsgpa.HP.COM (Peter Lim) (11/08/89)
> > Awhile ago (about 2 months) I read something about > formatting a hard disk with track 0 failure. I don't remember the > details of the solution. Could someone please aid a poor failing > hard disk and Email me this trick. > Are you sure this can be done ? If so, PLEASE let me into the trick too ! Although I am not having such problem at the moment. Never know it will become handy. I thought it can't be done. Regards, Peter Lim. HP Singapore IC Design Center. E-mail address: plim@hpsgwg Snail Mail address: Peter Lim Hewlett Packard Singapore, (ICDS, ICS) 1150, Depot Road, Singapore 0410. Telephone: (065)-279-2289
pipkins@qmsseq.imagen.com (Jeff Pipkins) (11/11/89)
In article <340015@hpsgpa.HP.COM> plim@hpsgpa.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes: >> >> Awhile ago (about 2 months) I read something about >> formatting a hard disk with track 0 failure. I don't remember the >> details of the solution. Could someone please aid a poor failing >> hard disk and Email me this trick. >> > >Are you sure this can be done ? If so, PLEASE let me into the trick >too ! Although I am not having such problem at the moment. Never >know it will become handy. I thought it can't be done. I am told that Paul Mace claims that his MACE utilities can recover from a FORMAT C: command EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE MACE UTILITIES LOADED WHEN THE FORMAT OCCURRED! I haven't tried it, but if I had just accidently formatted my drive, I'd buy it for the chance. His utilities get good reviews, too. I am not in any way connected with the Mace Utilities or the company that sells it and the opinions expressed here are my own.
yap@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap) (11/11/89)
In article <44@qmsseq.imagen.com> pipkins@qmsseq.UUCP (Jeff Pipkins) writes: >In article <340015@hpsgpa.HP.COM> plim@hpsgpa.HP.COM (Peter Lim) writes: >>> >>> Awhile ago (about 2 months) I read something about >>> formatting a hard disk with track 0 failure. I don't remember the >>> details of the solution. Could someone please aid a poor failing >>> hard disk and Email me this trick. >>> >> >>Are you sure this can be done ? If so, PLEASE let me into the trick >>too ! Although I am not having such problem at the moment. Never >>know it will become handy. I thought it can't be done. Perhaps you could run FDISK and make c: all of 1 track in size (however many clusters that might be - in my case 17). Then make a d: partition the size of the rest of the disk, make this the active dos partition. Of course I could be full of it, since I believe that the partition information is stored in the first (couple?) of sectors of track 0.
scott@csusac.csus.edu (L. Scott Emmons) (11/12/89)
In article <905@ac.dal.ca> neil@ac.dal.ca writes: > Awhile ago (about 2 months) I read something about >formatting a hard disk with track 0 failure. I don't remember the >details of the solution. Could someone please aid a poor failing >hard disk and Email me this trick. I just did this about a month ago on a Tallgrass Technologies Drive system with a bad cluster 0 (NOTE: The problem I worked with was CLUSTER, not TRACK...don't know if the same can be done for track, but it may be possible.) All I had to do was tell the disk partitioning program that partition 0 started at cluster 1 instead of cluster 0. I believe this would also be possible for a bad track, just calculate the number of clusters per track and start partition 0 here. Anyone have a better solution? -- L. Scott Emmons uucp: ...[!ucbvax]!ucdavis!csusac!scott
alan@oetl.UUCP (Alan Strassberg) (11/15/89)
In article <905@ac.dal.ca> neil@ac.dal.ca writes: > > Awhile ago (about 2 months) I read something about >formatting a hard disk with track 0 failure. I don't remember the >details of the solution. Could someone please aid a poor failing >hard disk and Email me this trick. > Norton's Advanced Utilities 4.5 comes with a book called - 'The Norton Troubleshooter' that describes the technique to do this. Naturally this utilizes Nortons tools. Highly recommended package. alan -- Alan Strassberg alan@oetl.scf.lockheed.com (408) 425-6139 ...!uunet!lstc!oetl!alan