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- From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
- Subject: Re: HELP!!! validating HD
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 13:15:31 GMT
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- In article <19340011@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> aites@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Jim Aites) writes:
- >In this way, I can feel safe that the 'bad' sectors will not be re-used and
- >also avoid clearing off starting over with a new format. (as least not as
- >often.) If there is a program which will politely handle marking blocks as
- >unreadable, or kill the file without messing around with the disk too much,
- >I'd like to hear of it.
- >
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- My copy of QB Tools v1.5 mentions in the manual that it will mark bad
- sectors as unreadable. The drive must be validated before the program will
- access the 'repair volume' menu. You can also, using the same menu, look
- for bad files and directories. DJ.
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