Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
References: <1992Jul28.165553.6657@inel.gov>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 17:38:58 GMT
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In a previous article, jar@inel.gov (Jeffry A Rich) says:
>I tried sending this "Cry for help" in the Advocacy group, but, apparently that was the wrong area. I'll try again.
>I have a 130mb hard drive with two known media errors on the disk. I can bypass these errors in dos/windows by using pctools.
>When using OS/2 and HPFS, these errors manifest themselves within applications that I've installed on the disk. I was under the impression that if you format the drive while installing OS/2, the file system automatically detects these media errors and wor
>If anyone has any thoughts concerning this problem, I would be most appreciative in hearing them.
>
> Regards,
> JR Rich
Try booting from floppy and running chkdsk c: /f:3