jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Jeffrey K. Long) (08/15/89)
I have a 30 Meg hard disk that I home-brewed about a year ago. Anyway, at the time I got the drive mech. I lost the list of bad sectors which was taped to it. I use ICD formatting utilities on the disk, but they never flag any defective sectors. I seem to have a recurring problem whenever I get my disk just so full, that I feel like it must be a defective sector that is screwing up my programs whenever I try to load them. Does anyone know of a program that does a good job of flagging bad sectors on a hard drive? Any suggestions? I have reformatted several times but the problem always seems to pop up latter! Help! ========================================================================= | Jeff Long jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (ARPA net) | | | | humble (and getting humbler by the day) graduate student; | | The Air Force Institute of Technology (what a great way of life??) | =========================================================================
Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) (08/19/89)
This may be a weird way to find bad sectors, but MichTron's Tune-Up
program can show a box will shaded areas showing used sectors, if you have
bad sectors you will get 'spots' in this pict after you format the
partition! I used this to find a nasty scratch on my hard drive surface
caused by a crashed head - looked like this:
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(etc)