feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) (05/05/88)
In article <25870@clyde.ATT.COM>, feg@moss.ATT.COM writes: > My HD shows a flaky sector where the first hidden file lives > and although I can get rid of the problem with a low level > format, the fix is only temporary--it reappears after a few > weeks. > > Attempts to mark the sector bad and then to move the hidden > files over so that they start at a higher relative sector > number than the normal number 2 result in a disk which can > be accessed but will not boot. I should have called this CLUSTER #2 instead of sector #2. Excuse the mixup. Forrest Gehrke
Paul_L_Schauble@cup.portal.com (05/10/88)
Delete the DOS partition and recreate it starting at cylinder 1. This will
leave cylinder 0 empty except for the boot record. The DOS files can then
be in cluster 2 -in the DOS partition- and still be on good disk space.
Paul