In article <29JUL199211244450@zeus.tamu.edu>, wjb5106@zeus.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul28.173858.24764@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes...
|> >
|> >In a previous article, jar@inel.gov (Jeffry A Rich) says:
|> >
|> >>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.
|> >>
|> >> Regards,
|> >> JR Rich
|> >
|> >Try booting from floppy and running chkdsk c: /f:3
|> >
|> >It may take a while, but it may fix it.
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|> 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?
|>
I've tried formatting both HPFS and FAT from OS/2 install disks. Yes, the disk formats correctly but the bad blocks don't seem to have been found.
Once, I formatted FAT and moved back to DOS/WINDOWS (I'm getting real good and installing/uninstalling OS/2!) and I STILL had to run PCTOOLS to isolate the bad blocks. Offhand, it looks like an incomplete format routine on the OS/2 install disks.
I always thought that one of the basic functions of a format routine was to find and isolate bad blocks...was I mistaken?
Regards,
JR Rich
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