maddox@blake.u.washington.edu (Tom Maddox) (09/16/90)
Lately the ST-238 hard drive on my Leading Edge D has been returning "Sector Not Found Drive C" messages with some frequency--it's an old drive, I think one of the first RLL drives Leading Edge shipped. Usually, hitting the "A" for "Abort" restores a command line, and you can can go on from there, and sometimes chkdsk then shows the first FAT as being scrambled. At that point, I just reset, and all is well. Two questions: is low-level formatting likely to help this problem, and is there a pd/shareware utility that will low-level format the drive without reformatting it--i.e., without requiring that I backup/restore the whole drive. Respond here or by e-mail, as you see fit. Thanks. -- Tom Maddox "Satanic Verses is a despicable book that could not have been written by a person who wished to behave decently and responsibly." Orson Scott Card