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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Locking out sectors
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.184932.2323@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <BxDpID.AAI@iat.holonet.net>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:49:32 GMT
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- In <BxDpID.AAI@iat.holonet.net> kellys@orac.holonet.net (Kelly Schwarzhoff) writes:
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- >The HD I use to run my BBS (opus) has a lot of bad sectors, and everytime opus
- >runs into it, it gives one of those "Bad Sectors - R)ety, F)ail",etc errors.
- >Does anyone know of a way to lock ou;the bad sectors, using some disk utility
- >like Nortun or something? I'm using MS-Dos 5.0, BTW.
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- Norton Utilities should contain tools to mark the bad sectors for you.
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