In article <1992Jul28.173858.24764@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes...
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>In a previous article, jar@inel.gov (Jeffry A Rich) says:
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>>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 w
>>If anyone has any thoughts concerning this problem, I would be most appreciative in hearing them.
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>> Regards,
>> JR Rich
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>Try booting from floppy and running chkdsk c: /f:3
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>It may take a while, but it may fix it.
Isn't HPFS supposed to have 'hot fixes' by which it marks bad sectors as
they occur and then bypasses them until the end of time?