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- From: sl31+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen M. Lacy)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: A very unnerving message
- Message-ID: <AfGpTa_00UhWA2XqVV@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 22:06:30 GMT
- Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- In-Reply-To: <MSALETNI.93Jan6121034@jade.tufts.edu>
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.os2.misc: 6-Jan-93 A very unnerving
- message by Michael J. Saletnik@jade
- > much worse. I received the message:
- > A defective sector on drive D: has been replaced.
- > No data was lost.
- > You should run CHKDSK soon to restore full performance
- > and to replenish the spare sector area of the volume.
- > This was an HPFS disk.
-
- Sounds to me like you've seen HPFS's "Hot Fix" in action. Here's the
- deal: HPFS has the ability to flag sectors of the drive bad, without
- reformatting. I'm not sure what else happened in your case, but it
- sounds like a sector was deemed "perminately" bad, and therefore will
- never ever again be written to, all without formatting.
-
- Steve
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